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Corps of Military Police Record

Surname:Davidson
Initials:D P
Rank:Sergeant
Army Number:2694160
Notes:CMP. POW. 18 Div Pro Coy. POW. Formerly Scots Guards. Captured 15/2/1942 Singapore. From Bladnoch, Wigtownshire.
Enlisted 18/1/1932. Home address: Waterside, Bladnoch, Wingtownshire. Prison Camps: Changi 2/42 to 9/45, Capt English OC Pro Coy. Ref MI9/Jap/31181A. Changi 1/9/1945 Cutts papers. Home address: Clenock Street, Stranraer, Scotland. 4/1/46 Discharged. Donald Percy Davidson.
Info from Japanese POW index card: David Percy Davidson. Born 3/7/1912 at Edinburgh, occupation Civil Policeman, Home address: Agnes Mary Davidson, 16 Clenoch Street, Stranraer, Scotland, father Robert William, mother Divine. POW No. 3557 new, i/2297 old. He is named on a nominal roll taken at Changi Goal POW Camp 5/9/1945. He is named on the British POW's held in Japan and Japanese occupied territory: 12673, Davidson, David P, Cpl. Army, captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp MA, Malaya. He is named on Malaya POW Camp Roll, 1/11/1944: Davidson, David Percy, Army, Cpl, new POW No. 3557, old POW No. i/2297, 2694160.
Casualty List 793, Malaya, Missing, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1126, Malaya previously reported missing now reported POW, previous List 793, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1926, Malaya, previously POW not now POW, former list 1126, Malaya.
David Percy Davidson.
Prisoner of War Record:
Imprisonment: Changi MALAYSIA 🇲🇾