To honour those who served their country

“In this their finest hour”

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Driver

Charles McCulloch

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1910/10/07 - Born Glasgow

Son of Charles and Margaret McCulloch

Royal Corps of Signals

18th Divisional Signals

 

Service

1941/10/30 - Left Liverpool in Convoy CT.5

Destination unknown

1941/11/08 - Arrived Halifax

Transferred to American Liners

1941/11/10 - Sailed from Halifax as Convoy William Sail 12X

Convoy William Sail 12x

Above Photo supplied by the late Maurice Rooney

Air Support for William Sail 12X

Via Cape Town, Kenya, Bombay

1941/12/28 - Docked Bombay, troops debarked for Jungle Training

1942/01/19 - Troops embarked, the ships sailed for Singapore in Task Force 14.2.

1942/02/15 - Singapore fell to the Japanese

 

Japanese PoW

1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore

PoW No. I 25998

Japanese Index Card - Side One

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Japanese Index Card - Side Two

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1942/06/18 - Transported in June Mainland Party to Thailand

Train 1 from Singapore to Thailand with 600 PoWs

Commander Major R S Sykes, Royal Army Service Corps, 18th Div.

To Non Pladuk Camp, Thailand

New PoW No. I 11061

1945/08/030 - Liberated Thailand

Information

Jacquie Daish

Convoy William Sail 12X

Japanese Transports

Thailand-Burma Railway

KEW:- WO 361/2172, WO 392/25, WO 345/33, WO 361/1955, WO 361/2196, WO 361/2190,

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