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Lance Corporal
William Ainsley
1931/07/13 - Born
1940/06/24 - Enlisted
5th Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
1942/02/25 - Roberts Hospital Changi (Camp Leader Col. Craven)
1942/11/14 - Transported by train to Tarso Thailand (Camp Leader Lt/Col. Knight)
1943/12/16 - Tonchan, Thailand (Camp Leader Capt. Hans, Aus. Army)
1944/04/16 - Tamuang, Thailand (Camp Leader Lt/Col. Knight)
1945/04/08 - Nakom Nayok, Thailand (Camp Leader RSM Stimpson, 118 RA)
1945/08/15 - liberated from Pratchai
Sailed home on the transport ship HMS Ormonde.
(In 1946 HMS Ormonde returned to her original name, before being commissioned by the Royal Navy, of HMS Empire Spearhead)
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