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Surname:Hadfield
Initials:H
Rank:Lance Corporal
Army Number:3533289
Notes:POW. Enlisted in the Manchester Regiment, attached to CMP. 15/8/45 to discharge.
Info from MI 9/JAP/ No. 21153A: Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Born 8/12/1917, enlisted 15/1/1940. Home Address 49 Corporation Street, Hyde, Cheshire. No prison camps listed on form.
Info from Japanese POW card index: Herbert Hadfield, born 8/12/1917, occupation Rubber Worker, born 49 Corporation Street, Hyde, Cheshire, home address Ditto, wife Gladys Hadfield, mother Nellie.
He is listed on roll POW held in Japan or Japanese Occupied Territory: 21161, Hadfield, Herbert, L/Cpl, 3533289, Army, captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp NA, Nagoya. He is listed on POW sent to Japan from Thailand: Hadfield, Herbert, Army, L/Cpl, new POW No. I 41915, old POW No. I 2066, 3533289. Nominal Roll of No. 1 Group, Singapore, Nominal Roll of POW held in Thailand, and Roster of POW held in Nagoya POW Camp, Funatsu Sub Camp.
Casualty List 778/12, Malaya, Missing, 15/2/1942, shown on 1 Manchester Regiment List.
Casualty List 1204/9, Malaya, previously reported Missing now reported POW, previous List 778, 15/2/1942, shown on 1 Manchester Regiment List.
Casualty List 1870/12, previously reported POW now not POW, previous List 1204, Malaya, shown on 1 Manchester Regiment List.
30/9/88 He was awarded the 1939 - 1945 Star, Pacific Star, Defence Medal, War Medal.
Address:- not shown.
Herbert Hadfield.
Prisoner of War Record:
Imprisonment: Changi MALAYSIA 🇲🇾