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Bert CatchpolePhoto taken of Bert Catchpole before the war
Photo taken of Bert Catchpole before the war

I do not know much about Private Bert Catchpole other than his name appears on the Brandon War Memorial.

Below are brief notes detailing what I have found so far.  Any further information about Bert would gratefully be received from me.   
  • Bert entered the war as a Territorial with the 4th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment and was sent to Singapore with his regiment in February 1942.
  • He was then taken captive at the hands of the Japanese in that same month and was imprisoned at Changi.
  • His parents' first news about him was not until July 1943, when he was listed as a POW of the Japanese.
  • Bert died on 10th October 1943, aged 35, 20 months as a POW and only 3 months after his parents had first been told that he was a Japanese POW.
  • Bert was the son of Amos Catchpole and of Maria Catchpole, of London Road, Brandon, Suffolk.
  • His name appears on the Brandon War Memorial and also at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.

 

 

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