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Surname:Lynch
Initials:W H
Rank:Lance Corporal
Army Number:7689947
Notes:CNP. POW. 18 Div Pro Coy. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Changi 1/9/1945 Cutts papers. Home address: 10 Upper Brook Street, Winchester, Hampshire.
Info from Japanese POW index card: William Henry Lynch, 7/10/1907 born Dublin, Ireland, address: Mrs Mary Lynch, 10 Upper Brook Street, Winchester, Hampshire, occupation Steel Erector, mother Margaret.
He is listed on British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 31444, Lynch, William Henry, L/Cpl, 7689947, Army, captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp MA Malaya. He is listed on Malaya POW Camp Roll, 1/11/1944: Lynch, William Henry, Army, L/Cpl, new POW No. 7071, old POW No. i/4204, 7689947. He is listed in Nominal Roll of Changi Prison dated 5/9/1945.
Casualty List 793/2-, Malaya, missing, 15/2/1942.
Casualty List 1147/14, Malaya, previously reported missing now POW, previous List 793, 15/2/1942.
Casualty List 1926/7Malaya, previously POW not now POW, former list 1147, Malaya.
5/10/49 He was awarded the 1939 - 1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal.
Address:- 10 Upper Brook Street, Winchester, Hants.
William Henry Lynch.
Prisoner of War Record:
Imprisonment: Changi MALAYSIA 🇲🇾