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Information from Andrew Snow Added to three pages in the Roll of Honour

Added a page for William in the Roll of Honour, ‘Site Memorial’ section:-

https://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/m/html/martin-william-charles.htm

Information
Michele Porter – Granddaughter
Andrew Snow – Thailand Burma Railway Center
Japanese Transports
Thailand-Burma Railway
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
KEW Files:- WO 361/1504, WO 392/25, WO 361/2062, WO 361/2070, WO 361/1623, WO 361/1504, WO 361/2234, WO 361/2178, WO 367/3, WO 361/1947,

Added a page for David in the Roll of Honour, ‘Site Memorial’ section:-

https://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/k/html/kelly-david-gray.htm

Information
Alexander Methven
Japanese Transport
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
KEW Files:- WO 361/1526, WO 361/2172, WO 361/2053, WO 392/25, WO 345/29, WO 361/2165, WO 361/2165, WO 361/2061, WO 361/2186,

Added a page for George in the Roll of Honour, ‘Site Memorial’ section:-

https://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/g/html/gerrard-george.htm

Information
Ian E. Scott – Nephew
Japanese Transport
Thailand – Burma Railway
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
KEW Files:- WO 392/24, WO 345/20, WO 361/1947, WO 361/2060, WO 367/2, WO 361/2234, WO 361/2201, WO 361/2025, WO 417/40,

Added a page for Ronald in the Roll of Honour, ‘Site Memorial’ section:-

https://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/s/html/short-ronald-lewis.htm

Information
Andy Kendall
Andrew Snow
Martyn Fryer
Thailand – Burma Railway
Japanese Transports
Center for Research – Roger Mansell
KEW Files:- WO 392/26, WO 345/47, WO 367/3, WO 361/734, WO 361/734, WO 361/2005, WO 361/1987, WO 361/2064, WO 361/2169, WO 361/2178, WO 361/1742, WO 361/1983,

The newspaper cutting sent to me by Ian Bix, I have now added into the Far Eastern Heroes.

Maurice was a very good friend, miss his phone chats.:-

https://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/Kinkaseki_Reunion

A page has been added in the Roll of Honour, ‘Site Memorial’ section for Frank:-

https://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/b/html/buttifant-frank-isaac.htm

Information
Ian Bix
Japanese Transport
‘Never Forgotten’ – Taiwan PoWs
Liberation Questionnaire – COFEPOW
KEW Files:- WO 345/8, WO 392/23, WO 361/1968, WO 361/2068, WO 361/2189, WO 361/1475, WO 361/2058,

My thanks to Ian Bix for supplying the information on his father Cyril’s game of Test cricket at Changi against the Australians, not a well known three-match Ashes series but one to remember.

https://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/Changi_Ashes/

For the last few days I have put together in the ‘Far Eastern Heroes’ the story of Mickey Myles and Bill Spooner. With the kind permission of Tony Banham, using excerpts from his book ‘The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru’

‘The Friendship’

https://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/The_Friendship

Added a page in the Roll of Honour, ‘Site Memorial’ section for Frederick:-

https://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/c/html/catchpole-frederick-william.htm

Information
Andrew Brown
Andrew Snow – Thailand Burma Railway Centre
Convoy William Sail 12X
Royal Norfolks in the Far East
Japanese Transports
Thailand-Burma Railway
KEW Files:- WO 345/9, WO 361/2058, WO 361/2234, WO 361/2176, WO 361/2233, WO 367/2, WO 392/23, WO 361/1946,