Sapper Edward Lennox 1923249
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Royal Engineers, 287 Field Company, 18th Division
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127 Thornlaw South, Thornley
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Enlisted: 15/2/40. Prisoner of the Japanese. Held at Changi, Singapore 15/2/42 to 25/4/43 and then at various camps in Thailand from 25/4/43.
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Captured at the Fall of Singapore in February 1942.
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Photograph Sunderland Echo, 11/3/43, which mistakenly reports him missing in the Middle East
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Trooper J Mason 321905
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1st Lothian and Border Yeomanry, 51st Division
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The Sunderland Echo of 18/9/40 reports Trooper J Mason (20), Lothian and Border Regiment, of 172 'Thornley St South' (obviously a misprint for Thornlaw South) Thornley, reported POW. Enlisted 10/1/39 Captured St Valery, France 12/6/40. Held at Stalags 21B and 8B, coal mine work camps
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L/Cpl N Oxley 126873
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Royal Army Service Corps
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Thornley address: Not known
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Where captured: Not Known
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Held: Stalag 18A, Wolfsberg. German POW number 2159
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Pte J T Robson
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Unit: Not Known
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160 Thornlaw South, Thornley
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Where captured: Not Known.
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Sgt Thomas Scott
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RAMC
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Vine Street, Thornley
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Prisoner of the Japanese
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Captured at the Fall of Singapore in February 1942.
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Died while POW.
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Pte James Shaw
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Royal Artillery
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Where captured; Unknown. No further details, as yet.
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Pte Syd Shutt 4465664
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16th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
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13 Morris Crescent, Thornley. Called up: June 1940. Captured: 2nd March 1943 during the Battle of Sedjenane in Tunisia. Held at Camps 66 and 53 in Italy and Stalag 17B (work camp) at Gneizendorf, Austria. German POW number 154989.
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L/Cpl Joseph Malcolm Straughn
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Gordon Highlanders
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Of High Street, Thornley, reported 'Missing' Sunderland Echo 11/7/40
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Pte Tom Tunney 4469395
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16th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
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Son of Hubert Tunney, of Theodore Cottage, Thornley
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Called up: December 1941. Captured 2nd March 1943 during the Battle of Sedjenane in Tunisia. Held at Camps 66 and 53 in Italy, Stalag 4B and Stalag 4D (work camp at Bad Schmiedeberg), Germany. German POW number 227987.
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Pte Robert Waller 5123499
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1st Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
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Son of Mr and Mrs T Waller, of Ruskin Crescent, Thornley
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Born 1921, Enlisted 9/1/40. Captured Florence, Italy, 16/8/44. Held: Stalag7A, Moosburg, Munich work camp (demolition work),Germany. German POW number 137231.
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Cpl J H Williamson
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Unit: unknown
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Reported 'Missing' in Hong Kong, with a photograph, in the
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