Harold Anthony Cheeseman
Memorial: South Gloucestershire war dead not on a local memorial
Regiment: Royal Artillery
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Lance Bombardier 872087
Parents: Harold Edwin and Mabel Frances Cheeseman
Marital status: Single
Home address: Home Address: 36 Maywood Crescent, Hambrook. Lived: Kingsbury, Staple Hill.
Date of birth: 1923
Place of birth: Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland
Date of death: 09/04/1945
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried at Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore. Not commemorated on a local memorial
Age: 22
Further information:
Harold Anthony was born in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, the second eldest of seven children. He was the son of Harold Edwin Cheeseman an assistant secretary to the dairy who had also served in the Royal Artillery during WW1.
Harold Anthony's regiment (the 9 Coast Regiment) fought the Japanese in the Battle of Singapore (7 Feb 1942 – 15 Feb 1942) and when Singapore fell Harold was taken prisoner of war and was held at Changi prison before being moved Northward in May 1942 to work on the construction of airfields and the infamous Burma railway. Harold was held prisoner at Number 10 POW camp, Long Thanh, near Saigon in Viet Nam and he died as the result of allied aerial bombing attacks on Japanese installations. Harold was originally buried in Saigon Military Cemetery, then reburied at Singapore in 1954.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
http://www.powresearch.jp/en/archive/camplist/outside_index.html