Month: October 2018

Compiled a database on the SSVF for the Roll of Honour, wrote the pages and add under ‘Regiments’:-

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/Regiments/Straits_Settlements_Volunteer_Force/

 

 

 

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

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/B/html/barron-william-henry-denny.html

Information
Irene King
KEW:- WO 345/3, WO 392/23, WO 361/2181, WO 361/1946,

 

Added a page and also updated:-

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/h/html/hood-robert-john.htm

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/Cemeteries/Labuan_Memorial/H/html/ho.htm

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/atrocities/sandakan/H/html/ho_database_29.htm

Added to his page:-

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/Hell_Ships/Rakuyo_Maru/html/b_died_database_92.htm

Added photo to 600 Gunners Party Roll.

Also added a new page for Wilfred in the ‘Site Memorial’ section of the Roll of Honour with more information:-

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/p/html/porteus-wilfred-george.htm

Information
Helen Hughson
600 Gunners Party
KEW:- WO 345/41, WO 392/25, WO 361/2063, WO 361/773, WO 361/1764, ARR2,

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

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/w/html/wheeler-leonard-victor.htm

Information
Barry Cracknell – Grandson of Leonard
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Kew:- WO 345/55, WO 361/2188, WO 392/26, WO 361/1948, ARR2, WO 417/40,

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

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/o/html/ogden-jonathan.htm

Information
Thailand to Burma Railway
KEW:- WO 361/2172, WO 361/1526, WO 392/25, WO 345/38, WO 361/2053, WO 361/1955, WO 361/1623, WO 361/2165, WO 361/2062, WO 361/2178, WO 361/2069,

William was added to the Roll of Honour, ‘Site Memorial’ section:-

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/B/html/baker-william-edmund.htm

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

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/k/html/kerrison-sydney-george.htm

Information
KEW:- WO 361/2061, WO 361/2167, WO 361/2177, WO 361/2069, WO 392/25, WO 345/29, WO 361/1955, WO 361/2196,

I have added a letter sent to me by Guy Jackson, which his father Frederick William Jackson wrote to his wife as a Japanese PoW.

Frederick was one of the 600 Gunner Party, who died at Rabaul:-

http://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/Last_Letter_Home/

Thanks Guy