No.5828635, Corporal, Ronald Thomas CHAPMAN
Aged 28
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He is recorded elsewhere with these details, such as they are, but no sources or connection with Icklingham have been found.
Ronald Thomas Chapman was born on 12th November 1914 (Uckfield Q1-1915 2B:190) son of Mrs T CHAPMAN (née BALLARD). CWGC have him married to Edith Alice CHAPMAN. In all probability this was the marriage in Surrey SW in Q2-1940 between Ronald T CHAPMAN and Edith A NYE. His will gives their address as The Street, Puttenham, Surrey. The Army Roll of Honour has him as resident in Suffolk, but his Japanese PoW index card gives his Puttenham address. Possibly he was at one time a forester in the Icklingham area. |
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Corporal Ronald Thomas Chapman died as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, having been captured a the surrender of Singapore on 15th February 1942.
The 5th Suffolks, together with the 4th Suffolks, 4th Norfolks and 1st and 2nd Cambridgeshires were fighting to the very end in the Farrer Road to Braddell Road area of Singapore on the day of the surrender. He was first interned in Changi and then transferred overland to work on the Burma Railway He died of cholera at Soukrai Camp, Thailand. |
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