| Notes: | CMP. POW. 18 Div Pro Coy. He was born and resided in Leeds. Captured Singapore 15/2/1942. Died from Diarrhoea 2/9/1943 at Tambya, Burma. Home address: Mrs M Tweeddale, 48 Beechwood Mount, Burley, Leeds.
Info from Japanese POW index card: Duncan Tweeddale, 10/3/1900 born Leeds, Yorkshire, address: Mary Tweeddale, 48 Beechwood Mount, Leeds. Yorkshire, occupation Compositor, father Peter, mother Mary.
He is listed on British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 51453. Tweedale, Duncan, L/cpl, Army, captured 15/2/1942, died 2/9/1945, camp MA, Malaya. He is listed on POW transferred overland to camps 4/1943, "F" Force: i/6258, Tweedale, D, 7688532, L/Cpl, 18 Div Pro. He is listed on "F" Force Working Party Roll, Thailand: 7688532, L/Cpl, Tweedale, D. CMP, 18 Div, died 2/9/1943. He is listed on Unreported Death of Allied Personnel: Tweedale, Duncan, L/Cpl, 7688532, died from Colitis, 2/9/1943, he was cremated.
Casualty List 792, Malaya, Missing, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1159, Malaya, previously reported missing now reported POW, previous List 792, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1930, POW, previously reported POW now reported died, date of death 2/9/1943, previous List 1159, Dutch East Indies.
Ducan Tweedale
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 20/7/43.
Mr and Mrs Peter Tweeddale of Beechwood Mount, Leeds have received a message from their son, L/Cpl Duncan Tweeddale, Corps of Military Police stating that h is a prisoner of war in Japanese hands and is being well treated This is the first news from him since the fall of Singapore
Extract from Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 28/11/45.
Died in a Burma Prison Camp.
Duncan Tweedale.
Official notification has been received from the War Office that L/Cpl Duncan Tweeddale, age 36, 18th Divisional Provost Company, Corps of Military Police died from malaria and dysentery while a prisoner of war in Tambaya Hospital Camp, Burma. On September 2, 1943 L/Cpl Tweeddale was reported missing after the fall of Singapore. He was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Peter C Tweeddale, 48 Beechwood Mount, Burley, Leeds and was formerly employed in the composing department of "The Yorkshire Post". |
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