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Surname:Willoughby
Initials:R W H
Rank:Captain
Army Number:52121
Notes:Provost Officer. Hong Kong Pro Coy. Middlesex Regiment. POW. APM HQ China Command Hong Kong. Captured 25/12/41, Hong Kong. POW Camps: BM4 Hong Kong 26/12/41, Lt Col Shackleton, Shamshuipo Honk Kong 12/2/42 Maj Gen Maltby, Argyll Street Hong Kong 18/4/42 Maj Gen Maltby, Camp N Shamshuipo 12/4/44, Lt Col White. Info from: M.I.9/JAP/No.21607A.
Info from Japanese POW card index: Richard William Henry Willoughby, born 30/10/1910 at Painswick, Gloucestershire, address: Mrs B Willoughby, C/O Westminster Bank, Warminster, Wiltshire, wife Blanche.
He is listed on POW Camp List location not known: Willoughby, Richard William Henry, Army, Capt, POW No.28, 52121.
Casualty List 715 (Officers), Hong Kong, Missing, 1 Middlesex Regiment, Willoughby, Lt, RWH, 52121, 15/12/1941. Casualty List 859 (Officers), now POW previously reported Missing on List 715, 25/12/1941, Willoughby, Lt, RWH, 52121. Casualty List 1877 (Officers), previously reported POW not now POW, Middlesex Regiment, Willoughby, Lt, RWH, 52121, previous List 809 Hong Kong.
Richard William Henry Willoughby.
Prisoner of War Record:
Imprisonment: Shampshuipo HONG KONG 🇭🇰
Provost Officer Appointments:
No appointments recorded