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Sig. John Wilson "Bing" Conley
British Army 18th Division Royal Corps of Signals
from:Farnborough
(d.7th July 1944)
I am trying to find out details about my father Signalman John Conley (nickname Bing) 18th Division Royal Corp Signals service # 3129355 who died in Changi 7/7/44. He is buried at Kranji war Cemetery Singapore
I am trying to find out about his capture at Padang Sumatra March 17th 1942 and how he got to Padang in the first place. I have obtained his Japanese Index Card (with the the kind help of Andrew Snow from the Death Railway Museum in Kanchanaburi)and it makes mention of him being captured at Padang and our family always thought he was captured at Singapore. The story we were told as children was that he had escaped from Singapore to Sumatra and then captured by the Japs but I believe if they caught an escaped POW they executed them, I would be grateful if anyone who has any information could contact me.
I am more fortunate than most as I was at the opening of Kranji while in the Royal Air Force stationed at Changi, and visit his grave there twice a year.