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Corps of Military Police Record

Surname:Hall
Initials:J A
Rank:Lance Corporal
Army Number:7684307
Notes:CMP He enlisted in to CMP. 15/7/46 to discharge.
Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Changi 1/9/1945 Cutts papers. Home address: Mrs. C Hall, Redhouses, White Hill, Lockerbie, Dumfries, Scotland.
Information from Japanese POW index card: John Hall, 7684307, L/Cpl, 15/2/1942 captured Singapore, born 11/7/1903 at Harcourt Place, Lockerby, Scotland, mother Agnes, address Christinal Hall, Redhouses, Lockerby, Scotland, occupation Labourer, 18 Div Pro Coy, father James.
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: 21393, Hall John, L/cpl, 7684307, Army, captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp MA, Malays. He is listed on Malaya POW Camp Roll, 1/11/1944: Hall, John, Army, L/Cpl, new POW No. 5104, old POW No. i/3164, 7684307.
Casualty List 793/19, Malaya, Missing, 15/2/1942.
Casualty List 1149/9, previously reported missing now POW, previous list 793.
Casualty List 1903/13, POW, previously reported POW now not POW, previous List 1149, corrected by List 1681, Malaya.
14/10/48 He was awarded the 1939 - 1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal.
Address:- 74 Park Place, Locherbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
John Archibald Hall.

Extract from the Dumfries & Galloway Standard. 26/5/43.
ST MUNGO MAN A PRISONER. Mrs Hall, Red houses, Whitehill, St Mungo, has received official information that her husband Corporal John Archibald Hall of the Corps of Military Police is a prisoner of war in Japanese hands, and is in Malai Camp. Corporal Hall is the youngest son of Mrs Hall, Townhead Street, Lockerbie and before joining the army he was in the employment of the Automobile Association and was stationed at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.
Prisoner of War Record:
Imprisonment: Changi MALAYSIA 🇲🇾