| Surname: | Gill |
| Initials: | R L |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 7689988 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. 18 Div Pro Coy. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Changi 1/9/1945 Cutts papers. Born 31/8/1914, enlisted 18/9/1940. Home address: 75 King Edward Avenue, Worthing. Prison: Changi 15/2/1942 to 26/9/1945. MI 9/Jap No 31166A. Wife's address shown as Mrs D C Gill, 11 Station Parade, Farring Road, Worthing, Sussex. Information from Japanese POW index card: Robert Leonard Gill. Born 21/8/14 at Brighton, Sussex, occupation Butcher, home address: Mrs D C Gill, 11 Station Parade, Tarring Road, Worthing, Sussex, mother Minnie. He is listed on British POW's held in Malaya POW Camp Roll, 1/11/1944: Gill, Robert Leonard, Army, L/Cpl, new POW No. 4749, old POW No. I/2928, 7689988. He is listed on a nominal roll taken at Changi Goal POW Camp 5/9/1945. He is listed on British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 19133, Gill Robert Leonard, L/Cpl, 7689988, Army, Captured 15/21942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp MA, Malaya. Casualty List 793/19, Malaya, Missing, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1134/12, Malaya, previously reported missing now POW, on List 793, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1926/7, Malaya, previously POW not now POW, former list 1134, Malaya. Medal card not found. Robert Edward Gill. |
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| Imprisonment: | Changi MALAYSIA 🇲🇾 |