| Surname: | Watts |
| Initials: | G W |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 7685022 |
| Notes: | CMP. 18 Div Pro Coy. POW. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Changi 1/9/1945 Cutts papers. Gordon Walter Watts, Born 19/9/1916, enlisted 31/5/1939 (TA), Home address: Mrs G W Watts, 21 Bawdsey Avenue, Newbury Park, Ilford, Essex. Camp: Changi, 2/1942 to 9/1945, Lt Col Holmes, Manchester Regiment. Info from MI 9/JAP/ No. 75343A. from Japanese POW card index: Gordon Watts, born 19/9/1915 at Bow, London, address: Mrs G Watts, 24 Bawdsey Avenue, Newbury Park, Ilford, Essex. occupation Clerk, father John, mother Eva. POW No. 11101 new, i/6433 old. 53176, Watts, Gordon W, L/Cpl, 7685022, Army, captured 15/2/1942, liberated 2/9/1945, camp MA, Malaya. He is listed on Malaya POW Camp Roll: Watts, Gordon Walter, Army, L/Cpl, new POW No. 11101, old POW No. i/6433, 7685022He is listed on British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: He is named on a nominal roll taken at Changi Goal POW Camp 5/9/1945. Casualty List 794, Malaya, missing 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1166, Malaya, previously reported Missing now reported POW, previous List 794, 15/2/1942. Casualty List 1892, previously reported POW now not POW, previous List 1166, Malaya. 13/7/48 he was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal. Address:- 4 Batavia Road, Canvey, Essex. Gordon Walter Watts. |
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| Imprisonment: | Changi MALAYSIA 🇲🇾 |