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Source
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Dates
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Topic
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FC
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19/05/1865
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Announcement of the formation of the Blackpool Battery
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FC
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16/06/1865
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Plans for Swearing In
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FC
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23/06/1865
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Swearing In and Parade
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FC
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30/06/1865
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Contracts signed for Uniforms; Fund raising
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BGH
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01/04/1939
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Appeal for National Service (Duchess of Atholl at the Co-op Hall)
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BGH
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08/04/1939
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Recruiting Drive for Blackpool Regt
Prospect of a ‘Blackpool Regiment’
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BGH
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15/04/1939
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History of the Blackpool Battery
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BGH
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15/04/1939
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New Regiment announcement with new HQ at Yorkshire St.
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BGH
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15/04/1939
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Rush of recruits
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BGH
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29/04/1939
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Appeals for National Service recruits at Bloomfield Rd Ground
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BGH
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29/04/1939
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Swift response to the recruiting drive (with pictures)
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BGH
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20/05/1939
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Territorial Pay & Conditions
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BGH
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02/09/1939
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A guide to the War
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BGH
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22/09/1945
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Pilot, of Highfield Rd Blackpool, describes seeing PoWs at an airfield in ‘South East Asia’
Local Lancashire Fusilier describes the fight at Kohima
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BGH
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23/09/1939
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Arguments about ‘Billet Pay’
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BGH
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02/10/1945
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Peace Terms agreed
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BGH
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04/10/1946
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Reports of Bayoneting Doctors and Patients by Japanese
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BGH
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09/10/1945
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Returning St Annes & Blackpool PoWs Including Names and Photo’s
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BGH
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08/09/1945 - 12/10/1945
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Names and details of returning PoWs; Personal Accounts of treatment. Includes names
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BGH
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BGH
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10/10/1945
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Returning PoWs Includes Names & photos
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Daily Mail
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10/10/1945
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‘How to treat PoWs back from the Far East’ by Professor from the School of Tropical Medicine, at Central Library
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BGH
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13/10/1945
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Justification for the Atomic bombing of Japan; returning PoWs, Including Names & photos.
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BGH
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15/10/1945
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Ex PoW describes the final speech of a Japanese Camp Commandant to 3000 assembled Allied Troops in Ubon, Thailand.
Another, reports on ‘Looking back over 4278 days within the Gates of Hell’
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BGH
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16/10/1945
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Town’s response to homecoming. Includes Names and photo’s
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20/10/1945
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Cpl S robinson unfavourable compares Kuala Lumpur with Blackpool
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BGH
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20/09/1952
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New home for TA Units (Devonshire Road Training Area)
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BGH
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26/03/1955
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Future role of the Blackpool Regiment
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BGH
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16/06/1956
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National Conference of Federation of FEPOW Associations: Fancy Dress – Jap Guards!
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BGH
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17/08/1995
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137 Roll of Honour
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BG
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15/08/2005
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‘Sixty Years On – a tribute to the Fylde’s Heroes’ (Supplement)
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Abbreviations: FC - Fleetwood Chronicle, Blackpool Herald & Lytham Gazette & Fylde Advertiser; BG - Blackpool Gazette & Herald
Books:
Flower, S.J., Prisoners of War and Their Captors, p228, in Moore, B. & Fedorowich, K., 1996, Captors and Captives on the Burma – Thailand Railway, p228, Berg.
Rawlins, L., & Duncan, B., 1972, And the dawn came like thunder, Chapman.
Gillies, M., 2011, The Barbed Wire University: The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War, Aurum.
Websites:
TA History at:
www.army.mod.uk/reserve/31793.aspx
Blackpool Chronology at:
http://www.blackpoolhistory.co.uk/
A personal account:
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/92/a7428792.shtml
Taylor, R., 2003, Written account of 2Lt Robert Hartley at:
www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/2nd_Lt_Robert_Hartley/
Letter with an account of the death of Richard Ekin Cumberbatch of 137 in a Japanese PoW Camp at:
homepage.ntlworld.com/bob.cumberbatch/Richard%20Cumberbatch.htm
List of Units serving in Malaya and Singapore in 1941 at:
malayacommand.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/1941-december-royal-artillery-indian.html
Account of the Invasion of Burma and Singapore including key sites of 137 involvement at:
ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=47
Articles on the Burma Campaign at:
www.britain-at-war.org.uk/html/burma_compaign.htm
Articles and accounts of the ‘Fall of Singapore’ at:
www.britain-at-war.org.uk/WW2/Malaya_and_Singapore/index.htm
Film coverage of the invasion of Thailand and the ‘Fall of Singapore’ from the ‘World at War’ series Episode 6 ‘Banzai!: Japan (1931–1942)’ available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6pNNAQmbmA
Building of the Thailand-Burma Railway at:
http://hellfire-pass.commemoration.gov.au/building-hellfire-pass/
AND: www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1057619.shtml
Imperial War Museum article on the Sinking of PoW ships at:
www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-sinking-of-prisoner-of-war-transport-ships-in-the-far-east
Account of conditions on board PoW ship at:
www.fepow-community.org.uk/arthur_lane/html/sinking_of_the_lisbon_maru.htm
Prisoners accounts and experience at: www.captivememories.org.uk/
Permanent Exhibition at the National Memorial Arboretum, at: www.thenma.org.uk
Other Sources
War Diaries of 137 Regt at National Archives at Ref: WO 166/1549
Recorded interview: Payne, Harold Lloyd (IWM interview) at Imperial War Museum, Cat No: 4748.
Prisoners of War, Far East: 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery 1942 Jan 01 - 1945 Dec 31; at National Archives, Ref: WO 361/2095
A Brief summary of the ‘Fall of Singapore’ with sources and accounts related to tracing Far East PoWs: Gillies, M., 2012, in ‘The Fall of Singapore’ in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, March 2012, pp24-29
Images
Royal Artillery Cap Badge: http://www.kentfallen.com/Kent%20Royal%20Artillery.html
Yorkshire Street Drill Hall: Courtesy of www.rfca.mod.uk
Blackpool Recruits: Evening Gazette, 29/04/1939
Burma Peninsula Map: Courtesy of and adapted from Taylor, R., 2003 above.
Tracing Far East PoW Relatives
Malayan Volunteers at: www.malayanvolunteersgroup.org.uk/
Java Prisoners at: www.thejavafepowclub42.org/
Far East PoW Research Guide (Section 7) at: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-prisoners-second-world-war-korean-war/#7-british-prisoners-of-war-in-the-far-east-1939-1945
Children of Far East PoWs at: www.cofepow.org.uk
Links and sources at: www.researchingfepowhistory.org.uk
Details of the PoW Camps at: www.mansell.com
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