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Reginald Stuart Buchan

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1899/03/04 - Born London

Occupation Clerk,  Merchant: Representative, Paul E. Samman & Co. Singapore.

 (Care of National City Bank of N/Y)

1940 - Enlisted

Next of kin: Mrs E G Buchan, Granville, New South Wales

Straits Settlements Volunteer Force

1st Battalion

Southern Area

 

Service

1941/04/ - Exempted from military training

 

Japanese PoW

1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore

PoW No. IV 2330

Japanese Index Card - Side One

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Japanese Index Card - Side Two

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1942/10/12 - Transported to Thailand in Work Group IV with with D Battalion

(Reginald did not fill in his Liberation Questionnaire)

New PoW No. IV 3716

First Camps for Work Group IV were:- Ban Pong to Wampo [Lt Colonel H. Lilly]; Tonchan; Kanu; Kinsayok; Tarsoa to Tamuang.

1945/08/30 - Liberated Thailand

Information

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Jonathan Moffatt

KEW:- WO 361/2172, WO 345/7, WO 361/1954, WO 361/2196, WO 392/23, WO 361/2169, WO 361/2058, WO 361/1987, WO 361/1979

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