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915791
Gunner
Walter Stanley Newberry
1915/11/28 - Born Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Royal Artillery
135 (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment
18th Division
Service
1941/10/31 - The 135th Field Regiment sailed from Gourock in the Polish Free State vessel, ‘M,V. Sobieski’ and joined Convoy CT.5 (18th Division) off the Irish Coast
Also on board were the 2nd Cambridgeshire Regiment as part of the 18th Division.
1941/11/08 - Transferred to USS Mount Vernon with 53 Infantry Brigade
1941/11/10 - Sailed from Halifax in Convoy William Sail 12X
1941/11/18 - Arrived Port Spain, Trinidad
1941/11/20 - Sailed for Cape Town
1941/12/08 - Japan entered the war and invades Malaya
1941/12/09 - Arrived Cape Town
1941/12/13 - Sailed for Mombassa, Kenya
1941/12/25 Arrived Mombassa, Kenya
1941/12/29 - Mount Vernon left Kenya for Singapore in Convoy DM.1
1942/01/04 - Mount Vernon anchored at Addu Atool in the Maldive Islands, mail going ashore and taking on water. The next morning at 0900hrs, Convoy DM.1 got under way escorted by HMS Emerald , Exeter and Jumna.
1942/01/13 - At 1315hrs Mount Vernon docked at the Navy Yard, Singapore
1942/02/15 - Singapore surrendered to the Japanese
1942/04/10 - WO 417/41, Casualty List No. 794. Reported ‘Missing’
1943/04/29 - WO 417/60, Casualty List No. 1121. Previously reported Missing on Casualty List No. 794, 15/02/1942 now reported Prisoner of War.
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
Changi Camp
PoW No. M-979
Commander Col. Toosey
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/06/19 - Tranported with June Mainland Pary to Thailand, Train 1
1st train to Thailand with 600 PoWs
Commander Major R.S. Sykes, RASC, 18th Division
New PoW No. I 11944
Camps in Thailand:-
1942/07/19 - Nong Pladuk
Commander Col. Gill
October 1942/10/26 - Walter is likely to have moved to Tha Makham to help build the Bridge with his commander Lt-Col. Toosey in then returned to Nong Pladuk later in 1943.
1944/10/16 - Yongthi Bridge 213km from Nong Pladuk (a wooden bridge in between Prang kasi and Tha Khanun)
Commander Captain Captain Edward Young Dobson, 1st Leicestershire Regiment
Railway Maintenance
1944/01/13 - Back to Nong Pladuk
1945/02/28 Arrived Ubon Camp
PoW No. I 24492
Worked on Aerodrome construction.
1945/05/01 - Admitted to Hospital with Malaria.
Medical Diary 4 (Page 391, Rec.No. 17336)
1945/05/03 - Discharge from Hospital
1945/08/30 - Liberated Ubon, Thailand
Liberation Questionnaire
1945/10/27 - WO417/98, Casualty List No. 1895. Previously reported on Casualty List No. 1121 as Prisoner of War now Not Prisoner of War. Previous Theatre of War, Malaya.
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Post War
Died
Age 72
1987/12/27
Cause of Death Liver Failure
Information
Andy Curtis - Grandson
Andrew Snow - Thailand Burma Railway Centre
Convoy William Sail 12X
Japanese Transports
Thailand-Burma Railway
Ubon Camp
Liberation Questionnaire - COFEPOW
KEW Files:- WO 361/2172, WO 345/38, WO 361/2196, WO 392/25, WO 361/2165, WO 361/2165, WO 361/2187, WO 361/2062,
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