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18th Division Royal Signals
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Dvr. Francis Kenneth Elwell 18th Division Royal Signals (d.12th September 1944) Francis Elwell served with 18th Divisional Signals, he is remembered on the Kranji War Memorial in Singapore.
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Pte. Fred Okell Dewison 18th Division Royal Signal Corps My grandfather, Fred Dewison, was a driver in the 18th Divisional Signals. He was a POW in the Far East and worked on the Thai Burma railway. He enlisted at Catterick in November 1940 and sailed from Liverpool to Nova Scotia on the Reno del Pacifico on 28th of October 1941. Here he was transferred to the USS Wakefield (formerly the Manhattan) and finally arrived in Singapore on 29th of January 1942 (via Capetown and Bombay).
He was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore on 15th of February 1942 and was imprisoned in Changi until he was transferred to the railway, as part of Overland Letter Party O, on 3rd of November 1942.
I am trying to find out a little more about his time on the railway construction and the period afterwards (still in Thailand I believe). He was liberated in September 1945 and discharged in late 1945, following which he spent some time convalescing in hospital in Liverpool. He was moderately disabled as a result of his experiences, but led a full life until his death at the age of 78 in 1986.
I guess it's unlikely that anyone will still have recollection of Fred himself, but if anyone has any information about what happened to Letter Party O, I would be very interested.
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Sig. John Wilson "Bing" Conley 18th Division Royal Corps of Signals (d.7th July 1944) I am trying to find out details about my father Signalman John Conley (nickname Bing) 18th Division Royal Corp Signals service # 3129355 who died in Changi 7/7/44. He is buried at Kranji war Cemetery SingaporeI am trying to find out about his capture at Padang Sumatra March 17th 1942 and how he got to Padang in the first place. I have obtained his Japanese Index Card (with the the kind help of Andrew Snow from the Death Railway Museum in Kanchanaburi)and it makes mention of him being captured at Padang and our family always thought he was captured at Singapore. The story we were told as children was that he had escaped from Singapore to Sumatra and then captured by the Japs but I believe if they caught an escaped POW they executed them, I would be grateful if anyone who has any information could contact me.
I am more fortunate than most as I was at the opening of Kranji while in the Royal Air Force stationed at Changi, and visit his grave there twice a year.
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