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Surname:Smith
Initials:S A
Rank:Sergeant
Army Number:2613277
Notes:CMP. POW. 18 Div Pro Coy. Formerly Grenadier Guards, transferred to CMP. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Changi 1/9/1945 Cutts papers. Discharged 15/4/1946. Stanley Arthur Smith.
Born 9/3/1914, enlisted 29/7/1932, home address: Mrs G M Smith, 4 Preston Avenue, Wymondham, Norfolk. Prison Camps: Changi, Singapore 15/2/1942 to 15/4/1943, Gen Percival, Neriki, Thailand, Col Harris 15/4/1943 to 9/1943, Tanbaya, Burma, 9/1943 to 11/1943, Changi, 11/1943 to 15/8/1945. Info from MI9/JAP/No.31178A.
Info from Japanese POW card index: Stanley Arthur Smith, born 9/3/1914 at High Street, Sandyford, Stoke on Trent, address: Mrs G M Smith, 4 Preston Avenue, Wymondham, Norfolk, occupation Civil Policeman, father Thomas. POW No. 9940 new, i/5807 old.
He is listed on British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 46963, Smith, Stanley Arthur, Sgt, 2613277, Army, captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp MA, Malaya. He is listed on Malaya POW Camp Roll: Smith, Stanley Arthur, Army, Sgt, new POW No. 9940, old POW No. i/5807, 2613277. He is listed on Allied POW transferred overland, 4/1943, "F" Force Party. He is listed on Nominal Roll of Train No. 7: 1/5807, Smith S, 613277, Sgt, 18 Div Pro.
He is named on a nominal roll taken at Changi Goal POW Camp 5/9/1945.
Casualty List 792, Malaya, Missing, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1160, Malaya previously posted missing now reported POW, previous List 792, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1907, POW, previously reported POW now not POW, previous List 1160, Malaya.
Stanley Arthur Smith.
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