| Notes: | CMP. 18 Div Pro Coy. POW. Enlisted in the West Yorkshire Regiment, transferred to CMP. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Shown as CMP HQ Selerang 5/5/44 Cutts papers. Changi 1/9/1945 Cutts papers. Home address: 65 Blackman Lane, Leeds 7. Born 28/2/13, enlisted 11/7/40. Prisons: Changi 14/2/42 to 24/4/43 Gen Percival, Sonkrai, Thailand 5/1943 to 12/1943, Lt Col Higston, Changi 20/12/1943 to 28/9/45, Lt Col Holmes & Col Newey. Info from: M.I.9/JAP/No.31149A.
Info from Japanese POW index card: James Phillis, born 28/2/1913 at 16 Boyne Place, Leeds, address: Mrs C E Phillis, 65 Blackman Lane, Leeds 7, occupation upholsterer, father Thomas, mother Nellie.
He is listed on British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 39781, Phillis, James, L/Cpl, 4533795, Army, captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp MA, Malaya. He is listed on Malaya POW Camp Roll: Phillis, James, A, L/Cpl, new POW No. 8588, old POW No. i/5041, 4533795. He is listed on POW transferred overland to Camps, Force "F", 4/1943: i/5041, Phillis, J, 4533795, 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 1225, Malaya, previously reported missing now reported POW, previous List 793, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1925, previously reported POW not now POW, previous list 1255 (corrected by 1229), Malaya.
James Phillis
He is mentioned in 7689015 L/Cpl Harry Thorpe's story "And to think I volunteered" which can be found on www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk. |
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