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Sidney George Vincent
1917/01/13 - Born Norwich
Occupation Grocers Assistant
Son of Sidney Charles and Ellen Maud (nee Payne) Vincent
1940/03/15 - Enlisted
Next of Kin: Mr S. C. Vincent, Home Apiary, Top Craft, Bungay, Suffolk
Royal Engineers
560th Field Company
18th Division
Service
1941/10/30 - 18th Division 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
1942/04/08 - WO 417/41, Casualty List No. 792. Reported Missing.
1941/10/13 - WO 417/52, Casualty List No.953. Previously shown on Casualty List No.792 as Missing, 15/02/1942. Reported Wounded and Missing.
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
Changi
PoW No. M-6293
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/11/03 - Transported Overland to Thailand with Letter Party ‘O’, Train 10
28th Train to Thailand
Work Group 4
649 PoWs as below:-
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Officers
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Other Ranks
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Royal Army Service Corps
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2
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54
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Royal Army Medical Corps
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1
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1
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18th Division Signals
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11
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177
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Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
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5
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174
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Royal Engineers
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2
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222
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Total
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21
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628
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Commander Lt-Col. Frederick Ian Noel McOstrich, Royal Corps of Signals, 18th Division
New PoW No. IV 1490
Camps in Thailand:-
1842/11/10 - Tha Sao - 125km from Nong Pladuk
Commander Lt-Col. Knights, Royal Norfolk Regiment
1943/10/ - Thailand-Burma rail lines joined near Konkoita
1943/11/05 - Kroeng Krai - 250.13km from Nong Pladuk
1943/12/19 - Tonchan - 138.80km from Nong Pladuk
1944/05/17 - Tha Muang - 38.90km from Nong Pladuk
Commander Lt-Col. Knights, Royal Norfolk Regiment
1945/06/01 - Takhli in Nakhon Sawan Province, Northern Thailand
New PoW No. IV 16248
Commander R.S.M. Sydney Colley Smith, Royal Artillery
1945/08/30 - Liberated Thailand
Liberation Questionnaire
Repatriation
Transported to Bangkok, by plane to Rangoon, recuperation.
1945/10/02 - Transported from Rangoon on the SS Chitral
1945/10/06 - Colombo, where 50 women and children were taken aboard
Suez Canal
1945/10/18 - Gibraltar
1945/10/28 - Arrived Southampton
1945/10/19 - WO417/98, Casualty List No. 1888. Previously shown on Casualty List No. 1349 as reported 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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Died
2002
Norwich District
Information
Pauline Simpson, FEPOW Chaplain - Daughter
Andrew Snow - Thailand-Burma Railway Centre
Convoy William Sail 12X
Japanese Transports
Thailand Burma Railway
Liberation Questionnaire - COFEPOW
Repatriation Transport
KEW Files:- WO 361/2172, WO 361/1955, WO 361/2196, WO 392/26, WO 345/53, WO 361/1987, WO 361/2169, WO 361/2069, WO 361/2065, WO 361/2191,
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