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Lance Corporal
Arthur Raymond Drew
1916/06/04 - Born
Woething, North Elmham, East Dereham, Norfolk
1940/04/18 - Enlisted
Royal Norfolk Regiment
4th Battalion
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Service Record
1941//10/29 - The 4th Royal Norfolk Regiment sailed in the Andes from Liverpool destination Halifax within Convoy CT.5.
The 4th Royal Norfolk and 4th Suffolk Regiments transferred to the USS Wakefield in Halifax
1941/11/10 - Voyage continued in the Wakefield destination unknown believed to be the Middle East within Convoy William Sail 12X
1941/12/08 - Japan invades Malaya
1941/12/13 - Convoy William Sail 12X leaves Cape Town for Kenya.
1942/12/27 - Convoy reaches Bombay
1941/12/29 - the Mount Vernon leaves Bombay and convoy for Singapore, the convoy now becomes Task Force 14.2
1942/01/19 - Left Bombay for Singapore
1942/01/29 - Disembarked Singapore
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
1942/03/10 - Under Lt. Col. Heath RA
Japanese Card Number 10920 (WO 345/15)
1942/11/04 - Overland to Bam Pong, Thailand, under Major Coles (WO 361/2176)
Back to Changi
1944/12/29 - Oversea Saigon, Dock Camp, under Major Glossop (WO 361/2176)
1945/08/15 - Liberated
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