Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Gnr. John James Rowley

British Army 77 HAA Rgt, 240 Btty. Royal Artillery

from:Newcastle

(d.10th Aug 1943)

Gunner John James Rowley was in the Royal Artillery serving in the 240 Battery, 77 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment, he was captured by the Japanese, I think, in 1942. Sometime he was taken to Hintok River Camp in Thailand where he worked on the Burma Thai railway near to the River Kwai. He sadly lost his life to cholera on the 10th of August 1943 due to the brutality of the Japanese army.



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