| Surname: | Sawkins |
| Initials: | E G |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 2032960 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. 18 Div Pro Coy. Enlisted in the Royal Engineers, transferred to CMP. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Changi 1/9/1945 Cutts papers. Born 8/1/1917, enlisted 14/5/1934, home address 79 Milton Road, Eastbourne, Sussex. Prison Camps: Changi 15/2/1942 to 13/4/1943, Gen Percival, Sonkrai, Tanbaya, Kanchanaburi, 13/4/1943 to 4/1944, Lt Col Hingston, Maj Hunt, Lt Col Humphrey, Kranji 14/4/1944 to 2/1945, Lt Col Craven, Changi 2/1945 to 26/9/1945, Col Holmes. Info from MI(/JAP/No.31188A. 19/4/46 Discharged. Info from Japanese POW index card: Edward George Sawkins, 18/1/1916 born 17 Oakhurst Avenue, Eastbourne, address: Edward Ernest Sawkins, 79 Melton Road, Eastbourne, occupation Mechanic, father Edward Ernest, mother Anne. POW No. 9466 new, i/5552 old. He is listed on British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 44426, Sawkins, Edward G, L/Cpl, 2032960, Army, captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp MA, Malaya. He is listed on Malaya POW camp roll: Sawkins, Edward George, Army, L/Cpl, new POW No. 9466, old POW No. i/5552, 2032960. He is listed on Allied POW's transferred overland to camps, 4/1943, "F" Work Party. He is listed on a nominal roll taken at Changi Goal POW Camp 5/9/1945. Casualty List 792, Malaya, Missing, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1156, Malaya, previously reported missing now reported POW, previous List 792, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1925, previously reported POW not now POW, previous list 1156, Malaya. Edward George Sawkins. |
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