| Notes: | CMP. POW. Singapore Fortress Pro Coy. Formerly Loyal Regiment, transferred to CMP. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Shown as being in Japan in Cutts papers.
Info from Japanese POW index card: Joseph Frederick Rycroft, 12/2/1915 born 7 St Michael Street, Walsall, Staffordshire, address: father Joseph Rycroft, 7 St Michael Street, Walsall, occupation Labourer, father Joseph, mother Annie.
He is listed on British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 44016, Rycroft, Joseph F, Cpl, 3854728, Army captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp HA, Hakadote, Japan. He is listed on Hakodota POW Camp Roll, Japan: British, 3854728, Rycroft, J F, Cpl.
Casualty Roll 765, Malaya Missing 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1156, Malaya, previously reported missing now reported POW, previous List 765, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1899, POW, reported POW now not POW, previous List 1156, Malaya.
Joseph Frederick Rycroft. |
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