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FUK 17 Rosters!!
It’s been a while!
New scanned documents on www.mansell.com featuring Ernest!!
http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/fukuoka/Fuku_17/FUK-17_Rosters_1946-02-16.pdf
Just going to dump this here for now. Will come back later when I have more time!
Complete stories
No.1 Military Dispersal Unit
6th Feb 1946
Command or District. | Title of Unit. | Location. | Tel. No. |
Scottish | No.1 Military Dispersal Unit | Redford Barracks, Edinburgh. | Edinburgh 88221 |
Links I will need to follow up
Links I’ve stumbled upon and need to follow up.
http://www.west-point.org/family/japanese-pow/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_Regiment
http://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/private_5776807/html/sailing_to_war.htm
Simon
April 12, 2013
Ernest Frederick Symonds Linsell
Born: 8th September 1913
Married: 13th April 1940 to Mary Gray Main Bannatyne
Died: 16th April 1994
Ernest, my grandad was a POW in the Far East during the second world war. I want to trace his movements from when he left Aldeburgh with the 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment through to his return to Suffolk after the war.
Hopefully, if you’ve landed on this page doing your own research there will be something you can learn from it.
These pages might get a bit messy over the following months/years, but hopefully there will be some sense amongst it all!
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