| Surname: | Henwood |
| Initials: | A |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 6140491 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. Singapore Fortress Pro Coy. Formerly East Surrey Regiment. 5/2/41 Transferred to CMP. 25/5/46 Discharged. Arthur Henwood. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Were seen up country and believed to be still safe. Cutts papers dated 18/10/44. Info from Japanese POW index card: Arthur Henwood, born 5/4/1916, born 4a Aviland Street, Field Road, Fulham, London, occupation Labourer, father Arthur, mother Caroline, same address. He is listed on British POW's held in Japan or Japanese Occupied Territory: 23534, Henwood, Arthur, L/cpl, 6140491, Army, captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp TH, Thailand. He is listed on POW Camp, Thailand Roll: Henwood, Arthur, Army, L/Cpl, new POW No. II 8447, old POW No. II 5711, 6140491, M-17/11/15 Casualty List 767/16, Malaya, Missing, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1274/6, Malaya, previously posted Missing now reported POW, previous List 767, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1883/16, POW, previously reported POW now not POW, previous List 1274, Malaya. 20/11/48 He was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star War Medal. note:- supplementary issue Defenc eMedal (1-0) Address:- 12 Downport Street, Field Road, Fulham, London S W 6. 9/7/58 82 Felsham Road, Putney, London S W 15. Arthur Henwood. Extract from the Fulham Chronicle, 19/10/45. Sad News in Store. Specially made welcome signs electrically lit will greet L/Cpl Arthur Henwood, of the Corps of Military Police when he arrives home at 4, Aviland Street, Field Road, after years of life in Thailand as a prisoner of the Japs. But joy will be mixed with sadness as his parents will have to tell him of the deaths of three of his sisters, one in a bomb incident in 1940. A regular soldier, L/Cpl Henwood originally served with he East Surrey Regiment and was in Shanghai. He was taken prisoner in Malaya. He is 29 and his mother last saw him in 1938. |
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| Imprisonment: | Thailand THAILAND 🇹🇠|