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560th Field Company, Royal Engineers
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Those known to have served with 560th Field Company, Royal Engineers during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Axford Henry Edward. Dvr. (d.4th Feb 1943)
- Axford Henry Edward. Dvr. (d.4th Feb 1943)
- Buck James. Spr. (d.31st Jul 1943)
- Cambers Bernard Charles. Spr. (d.17th Oct 1940)
- Cambers Bernard Charles. Spr. (d.19th Oct 1939)
- Collett Leslie. L/Sgt.
- Foley George. Spr
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Dvr. Henry Edward "Nib" Axford 560 Field Coy Royal Engineers (d.4th Feb 1943) Henry Axford served with 560th Field Company Royal Engineers during WW2 and died, aged 30,on the 4th February 1943. He is buried in Collective grave 6. G. 1-67. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand (formerly Siam).
He was the Son of Edward Henry and Nellie Axford.
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L/Sgt. Leslie Collett 560th Field Coy. Royal Engineers Leslie Collett was my grandad. He served with the 560th Field Coy, Royal Engineers in Singapore where he was captured and spent the war as a PoW.
All I know is that he was certainly at Changi jail.
He was one of the lucky ones that came home.
He weighed I believe 6 stone and never spoke much about it.
He died when I was young so I never got to talk to him about it but my mom said he never spoke at all about his experiences
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Spr. James Buck 560th Field Coy. Royal Engineers (d.31st Jul 1943) I purchased a cased, mounted set of 'Badge and Bombs' comprising cap, collar and shoulder badges. The case has the trademark of Frank Pricket Watchmaker and Jeweller Finkle Street Sedbergh. Behind the mount is a letter on lined paper written in pencil from Jim Buck to Dearest Glad leaving the case in her care as a memento. Jim gives his address as Sapper J Buck, 8th Independence Company, Old Prep School, Sedbergh, West Riding Yorkshire. From research, Jim served with 560 Field Company in Malaya and was a POW in Burma working on the infamous railway. Jim died on 31 July 1943 and lies in Kanchanaburi Cemetery in Thailand.
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Spr. Bernard Charles Cambers 560th Field Company (d.19th Oct 1939) Sapper Bernard Cambers and two other were killed whilst laying mines on the beach at Great Yarmouth to protect our shores from invasion on 19th of October 1939, he was just 19 years old. We now have a plaque on Gt Yarmouth racecourse in memory of them and also two others who were killed in a separate incident.
Sadly after the war many more were killed lifting the mines as tides and weather conditions had moved the mines and were no longer in the mapped places.
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Dvr. Henry Edward "Nib" Axford 560 Field Coy Royal Engineers (d.4th Feb 1943) Henry Edward Axford was my uncle (my father's brother). He served in the Royal Engineers 560 Field Company in WW2 as a driver. All I know about him is he was a prisoner of war and was on the "Death railway". He died on 4th February 1943 at the POW camp. I don't know which POW camp he was at or what he died of. I am going to Thailand travelling in March 2015 and will be going to pay my respects at his grave in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, and also to ride on the railway. Unfortunately all his siblings have passed on so there is no one to ask about him. Not that they talked very much about him when they were alive, mainly because I don't think there was a lot of information around. Any information would be fantastic.
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Spr. Bernard Charles Cambers 560 Field Coy Royal Engineers (d.17th Oct 1940) My father's brother Bernard Cambers along with Dennis Cooke, John Pratt were all Royal Engineers killed whilst laying mines at Gt. Yarmouth 1940. Can anyone remember this incident or have any information?
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