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2075866
Driver
Peter Robert Starling
1920/05/26 Born Thetford, Norfolk
Son of Albert and Lilian Starling
Occupation Motor Driver
1939/05/05 - Enlisted
Royal Engineers
288th Field Company
18th Division HQ
Service
1941/10/30 - Left Liverpool for Halifax in Convoy CT.5.
1941/11/08 - At Halifax transferred to American liners
1941/11/10 - Left Halifax with Convoy William Sail 12X, destination unknown, believed to be Middle East.
Above Photo of Convoy William Sail 12X supplied by the late Maurice Rooney
Vought SB 2U Vindicator Scout Bomber - USS Ranger which was flying an Anti Submarine patrol over the convoy.
Front Line Top to Bottom:-
USS West Point - USS Mount Vernon - USS Wakefield - USS Quincy (Heavy Cruiser)
Back Row Top To Bottom:-
USAT Leonard Wood - USS Vincennes (Heavy Cruiser) - USS Joseph T Dickman
(USS Orizaba Ap-24 also sailed with Convoy though not pictured in photo)
1941/12/08 - Japan entered war by bombing Pearl Harbour and invading Malaya
18th Division diverted from Middle East and sent to Singapore
1942/02/15 - Singapore surrendered to Japanese
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
PoW No. I 5899
Commander Col. E.B. Holmes
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/05/13 - Transported overland to Thailand with ‘H’ Force
80th Train from Singapore to Thailand
New PoW No. I 10106
Commander Lt.Col. R.R. Humphries, 77 H.A.A. Royal Artillery
1943/06/21 - Kannyu Jungle Camp -work at this camp was ‘Hammer and Chisel’, Hellfire Pass.
Various other camps in Thailand
1943/11/28 - Transported back to Singapore
Commander Col. E.B. Holmes
1945/09/02 - Liberated Changi
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Information
Brian Sayer - Friend of Peter
Thailand-Burma Railway
Japanese Transport
COFEPOW Liberation Questionnaire - written by Peter
KEW:- WO 367/3, WO 392/26, WO 345/49, WO 361/1948, WO 361/2191, WO 361/2064, WO 361/2233, WO 361/2229,
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