| Notes: | CMP. POW. Enlisted in the 7 Dorsetshire Regiment. 19/4/41 Transferred to CMP. 31/5/43 Died. He was born in Dorset and resided in Bristol. Name shown as Melthorpe in Crozier Roll of Honour. Captured Java 8/3/42. K Pro Coy formed by Japanese as a Pro Coy. Died from bossilial Dysentery.
Info from Japanese POW index card: Edward Ronald Nelthorpe, 19/4/1915 born Dorchester, address: Mrs Hilda Johnson, 16 Princess Street, Dorchester, father Arthur, mother Hilda.
He is listed on British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 36691, Melthorpe, Edward R, L/Cpl, 5728811, Army, captured 15/2/1942, died 31/5/1943, camp JA, Java, deceased. He is listed on POW Camp Java Roll: Nelthorpe, Edward Ronald, Army, L/Cpl, POW No. III 12482, 5729911, 31/5/18. He is listed on Java Camp List of Deaths and NOK: Nelthorpe, E R, Army, 5729911, 16 Kingsley Road, Redland, Bristol. He is listed on death records for Java: 296, British Army, L/Cpl, Cp H3, POW No. 12482, Nelthorpe, E R, CMP, cause of death Bacillary dysentery on 31/5/1942, buried Batodoa POW Cemetery.
Casualty List 1079, Netherlands East Indies, Missing, 1/2/1943. Casualty List 1186, Netherlands East Indies, previously posted missing now reported POW, previous List 1070, 1/2/1943. Casualty List 1941, POW, previously reported POW now reported Died, 31/5/1943, previous List 1186, Netherlands East Indies
Edward Ronald Nelthorpe. |
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