| Surname: | Johnson |
| Initials: | C |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 6407083 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. Formerly Royal Sussex Regiment. 25/1/41 Transferred to CMP. 4/6/46 Discharged. Charles Johnson. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Changi 1/9/1945 Cutts papers. Home address: Mrs E M Johnson, 8 Chartfield Road, Ryegate, Surrey. Information from Japanese POW index card: Charles Johnson, L/Cpl, No. 6407083,18 Div Pro Coy. 15/2/1942 captured Singapore, mother Ellen, father Frederick William, born Bletchanley, Surrey, address Ellem Mable Johnson, 8 Chartfield Road, Ryegate, Surrey, occupation Provision Merchant. He is listed on British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 27097, Jonson, Charles, L/Cpl, 6407083, Army, captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp MA, Malaya. He is listed on Malaya POW Roll: Jonson, Charles, Army, L/Cpl, new POW No. 6237, old POW No. i/3782, 6407083. He is listed in Nominal Roll of Changi Prison dated 5/9/1945. Casualty List 793/20, Malaya, missing, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1148/12, Malaya, previously reported missing now reported POW, previous List 792, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1926,/7, Malaya, previously POW not now POW, former list 1148, ( corrected by 1625, Malaya. 22/2/50 He was awarded the 1939 - 1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal. Address:- 2 Park View Terrace, Stanford Road, Brighton, Sussex. Charles Johnson. Extract from the Surrey Mirror, 21/5/43. PERSONAL. JOHNSON - Previously reported missing, now officially reported Prisoner of War in Japanese hands, L/Cpl C Johnson (Jim) of Military Police of 8, Chartfield road, Reigate. Extract from the Surrey Advertiser, 22/5/43. After 16 months news has been received that Lance Corporal Charles Johnson (Jim) of the Corps of Military Police, younger son of Mr and Mrs F W Johnson, Selborn House, Queen Street, Godalming is a prisoner of war in Japanese hands. |
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