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Hi Kelly. Gunner Arthur Dyer, Service No. 1078109, 215 Battery, 80th Anti Tank Regiment. Address given as Boundary Cottage, Rustington, Sussex and father living at North Lane, Rustington.
His battery was at Alloa on 29th August 1941, when then entrained for Gourock on the Clyde. Here they met up with the other 3 batteries of 80th A/T and also the Signals Section and the L.A.D. Section (Light Aid Detachment RAOC). At 2pm they embarked on RMT Scythia, but did not sail until 31st August 1941, as part of a convoy of 19 ships, and was known as the WS11 Convoy. The convoy sailed north west towards Nova Scotia, for more than 1,000 miles, before turning south, and then finally turning east, to avoid German U-Boats.
The convoy initially arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone on 13th September 1941.
The convoy then departed on 18th September and arrived in Durban on 3rd October.
At Durban the regiment was transferred to 2 smaller ships, with the 215 and the 2 Minden battery embarking on the HMT New Zeeland, and the 272 and 273 battery on the Ss Johan de Witt which sailed on 7th October, and arrived in Bombay on 22nd October. A depleted convoy of 6 ships left Bombay on 27th October, calling into Colombo, Sri Lanka on 31st October, and sailed onto Singapore, arriving 6th November 1941). Upon arrival the regiment was split up with each of the 4 batteries being sent to different locations in Malaya. The next time the men met up was as prisoners in Changi on 15/02/1942. Arthur was sent to the Siam Railroad on 20/06/1942 in one of the first parties to construct the camp for those who followed. In September 42 he was sent to Tamarkan to work on the bridges on the Kwai. This was followed by camps at Konkoita and Hindato before finally being sent 600Km northeast to Ubon to work on the airfield construction. He was liberated from this camp.

Sgt Wiliam Arthur Nicoll was serving in the
Shanghai Municipal Police from 1934 to 1945
when he was repatriated to UK on the SS Tamaroa.
Is it possible to find out in which camp he was
interned in Shanghai ?
I believe Wiliam was spelt with one l.

Alan, sorry, in post below each time I put Barnvard it should read Barneveld

Alan, I checked the UK pow listing , then the Royal Artillery listings, and there is no George Barneveld. I did however find a Sgt. G H Barneveld who was listed in Java and then sent to Changi in Java Party 24 on the Kinta Maru. The problem is that this Sgt G H Barnevard is a Dutchman born in 1902 and his name is Sgt. Gerrit Hendrik Barnevard. If you would like his documents sent , to eliminate him from your searches, just let me know and I will email them.

Hi Mike, 5th January 1910 Lambeth London.
George Harris Barneveld.

Alan, do you know his middle name, and date of birth?

Hi,
Looking for information on my grandfather George Barneveld, a sergeant in the royal artillery

Catherine. Gunner Daniel McCaskill, service number 879104, NOK address shown as 27, Ladykirk Drive, Cardonald, Glasgow. Imprisoned Changi, Singapore until 29.04.1943 when he entrained on Train 12 of

Hi I

Researching my family history and have discovered a Daniel David McCaskill who was born in1920 in Govan and was taken prisoner of war on 15th February 1942. Is there any way of finding out what POW camps he would have been in? He as a gunner in the 80 Anti Tank Regiment Royal Artillery. His unit number is 879104 and he was captured at Singapore.

Hi Nicola. Private Ernest Buck was in the 5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment, service number 6204756. Address shown as Foxley Close, North Earlham, Norwich. Taken prisoner on 15.02.1945 at the capitulation of Singapore. Imprisoned Changi until 24.06.1942 when he was sent to the Siam Railroad. This was one of the first parties to be sent and he would have been involved in the construction of a camp for all those who followed. He died at Chungkai (Thailand)(not Singapore) of avitaminosis on 08.10.1943 and was buried there in original grave number N/623. He would have been moved to his new grave post war, when the cemetery was laid out by the Commonwealth War Graves.

I'm researching my grandfather, Ernest Edward Buck, sometimes known as Edward Ernest Buck. He was with The Royal Norfolk Regiment & he died in Singapore, in 1943. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetary

I have just begun researching a member of my family

Hi Rosetta. . L/Sgt James Croll, I can only find him in the 1942 Changi files of the 1st Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment HKSRA. I cant see any reference to 3 HAA or 2 AA/HKSRA, but perhaps you have records prior to the capitulation on 15.02.1942. The 1HKSRA shows his fathers address of Ballater, Aberdeen. It also gives the information that he was sent to the Burma Railroad on 15.10.1942. The CWGC shows his original grave and place of death as

Request for A Pal , L/Sgt James Cargill Croll 1063870
3rd H A A Reg (2nd) HKSRA
We have been trying to piece together
his service details got on really well until it came to
his FEPOW history
Captured 15/02/42 Date of Death 11/8/45
CWGC Details and saturation but to be honest its double dutc
could you advise where we could find where he
was captured and any camps Regards

Hi Kelly, re Samuel Podmore. The Black Watch were part of the Chindit Force fighting to push the Japanese out of Burma later in the war. Can I suggest you Google 'Chindits' to find websites that I hope will be more able to help.

Hi,

Hi there, I am looking for information on my great grandfather Samuel Podmore who was in the Black Watch in Burma during the war and was a Japanese POW. I don

Mike I thank you from th bottom of my heart
For all the info you have supplied regarding
My Uncle Fred Monk.

Hi Jean. Re Frederick Monk. This was an interesting search. It was apparent from the offset that he was extremely unlikely to have died on the railroad as he would not have been buried in Hong Kong (Sai Wan). It is also very unusual to see a war grave stating such a broad range of death date possibilities. This is what I have found so far. Signalman Frederick Monk taken prisoner at the capitulation of Singapore on 15.02.1942. Imprisoned Changi until 04.11.1942 when he was sent to the Burma/Siam Railroad as part of

Hello I

Yvonne, re Bombadier Donald Lawson. 6th Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment (6 HAA). Service number 890355. Captured at the capitulation of Java on 08.03.1942. Imprisoned at Bandung March 42

We can't find records for my Grandad with a service number? As my Step-Nan threw his details away after he passed away.
His name was Hubert Dixon, born in 1927. He passed away in 2004 but we would love to find more details about him.
I believe he was a POW in Belsen?
If there aren't details here could you point me in the right direction to find them, want to give my mum a bit of her father back.

I recently found info that my uncle Frederick Monk
No. 2350496 of th 28th Ind. Inf. Bde, Sig. Sec.

Tina, re Jack Smith. There are 12 x J or Jack Smiths as POWs so more information is needed. However, one looks more obvious. Did he live at Station Road, Melbourne, Near Derby ? Did he have a date of birth of 27.02.1920 ?