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Corps of Military Police Record

Surname:Hawtin
Initials:A S
Rank:CQMS
Army Number:5379430
Notes:CMP. POW. 3 Indian Corps Pro Unit. Formerly Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Kranji Hospital 1/9/1945, Cutts papers. Born 26/12/1910, enlisted 29/5/1929. Home address: 4 Soudan Road, Battersey, London SW11. Prisons: Changi 17/2/1942 to 18/6/1944, Kranji 18/6/1944 to 17/9/1945. MI 9.Jap/ No 17000A.
Info from Japanese POW card index: Albert Sidney Hawtin, born 26/12/1911, born Queen Street, Bloxham, Oxon, home address: Mrs Mary Hawtin, C/O Mrs F Panting, Wykham Park Cottages, Wykham Part, Nr Banbury, Oxon, occupation Driver.
He is listed on British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 22903, Hawting, Albert Sidney, CQMS, 5379430, Hawtin, Albert Sidney, CQMS, 5379430, Army, Captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp MA, Malaya. He is listed on Malaya POW Camp List: Hawtin, Albert Sidney, Army, CQMS, new POW No. 5449, old POW No. i/3318, 5379430.
Casualty List 765/12, Malaya, Missing 15/2/42.
Casualty List 953/24, Malaya, Now POW previously reported Missing on List 765, 15/2/1942.
Casualty List 1907/12, POW, previously reported POW now not POW, previous List 953, Malaya.
Medal card not found.
Albert Sidney Hawtin.
Prisoner of War Record:
Imprisonment: Kranchi SINGAPORE πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¬