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POW WW2
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Linda | Report | 16 May 2024 14:50 |
Hello I wonder if anyone can help me find records of my father when he was a pow |
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ArgyllGran | Report | 16 May 2024 16:04 |
WW2 service records in general are not online, but there are some records of British POWs in Japan, and some other bits and pieces, on Ancestry - and possibly elsewhere.. |
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ErikaH | Report | 16 May 2024 17:12 |
Your father’s name and birth year would help us to help you |
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ErikaH | Report | 16 May 2024 17:23 |
The main source of info is the National Archives……google for link |
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greyghost | Report | 16 May 2024 18:29 |
Have a look at this site re getting hold of his service records. |
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greyghost | Report | 16 May 2024 18:31 |
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Jink20 | Report | 16 May 2024 20:13 |
National Archives hold POW records as per ErikaH and Greyghost. The records are held within the WO (War Office) series. For example |
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Linda | Report | 16 May 2024 22:49 |
Thank you so much for your input. My father's name is Herbert Salter, his date of birth 14/7/1910. I know he was in the army but not which regiment, he was a pow in Japan |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 16 May 2024 23:21 |
??? |
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ErikaH | Report | 16 May 2024 23:23 |
There are - very basic - records on FMP of a Gunner of that name being a PoW in Thailand |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 16 May 2024 23:32 |
It is likely that he is remembered by name at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. |
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ErikaH | Report | 17 May 2024 10:37 |
1921 Census Of England & Wales |
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Jink20 | Report | 17 May 2024 10:39 |
FMP has an original Index Card |
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Jink20 | Report | 17 May 2024 10:42 |
Prisoners of war, Far East: Thailand POW Camp, name list, as of 1 November 1944; volume II |
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Jink20 | Report | 17 May 2024 10:45 |
WO 345 - War Office: Japanese Index Cards of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees, Second World War |
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Jink20 | Report | 17 May 2024 10:49 |
War Office: Directorate of Prisoners of War: Prisoners of War Lists, Second World War, 1943-1945 |
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ArgyllGran | Report | 17 May 2024 10:51 |
Re Gunner Herbert Salter, service number 1700105 - that is the correct man: |
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Jink20 | Report | 17 May 2024 10:57 |
Prisoners of war, Far East: British POWs in Thailand and Saigon as at 1st August 1945; nominal roll |
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Jink20 | Report | 17 May 2024 11:01 |
For Far East Prisoners of War (FEPOW) websites, consider looking at the following: |
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ArgyllGran | Report | 17 May 2024 11:04 |
Following on from Herbert's Liberation Questionnaire in my last post - |
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