| Notes: | CMP. 18 Div Pro Coy. POW. Formerly Cheshire Regiment. 12/1/1941 Transferred to CMP. 3/1/46 Discharged. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Changi 1/9/1945 Cutts papers. Home address: 45 Shelley Avenue, Nunsthorpe, Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Born 15/11/18, enlisted 16/10/39, home address: 256 Wellington Street, Grimsby. Prisons: Changi Goal 15/2/42 to 24/4/43, Gen Percival, Lt Col Holmes. Sonkri Thailand 17/5/43 to 1/4/44 Lt Col Hingston, Lt Col Newey, Changi Goal 17/5/43 to 26/9/45 Lt Col Holmes. Info from: M.I.9/JAP/No.31182A.
Info from Japanese POW card index: Herbert Douglas Petchey, born 15/11/1918 at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, address: Ethel Petchey, 45 Shelley Avenue, Nunsthorpe, Grimsby, occupation Railwayman, father Ernest, mother Edith. POW No. 8546 new, i/5019 old.
He is named on British POW held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 39553, Petchey, Herbert Douglas, L/Cpl, Army, captured 15/2/1942, liberated 02/9/1945, camp MA, Malaya. He is named on Malaya POW Camp Roll: Petchey, Ernest Douglas, Army, L/Cpl, new POW No. 8540, old POW. No. i/5019, 4127853. He is listed on POW's transferred overland to camps, 4/1943: 1/5019 Petchey H, 427852, L/Cpl, 18 Div Pro Coy. He is named on a nominal roll taken at Changi Goal POW Camp 5/9/1945.
Casualty List 793, Malaya, missing, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1155, Malaya, previously posted missing now reported POW, previous List 793, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1907, POW, previously reported POW now not POW, previous List 1155, Malaya.
Herbert Douglas Petchey. |
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