Image from the Evening Star – 13th April 1942
JACK
Born: 1917, Ipswich.
Died: 14th May 1943; age: 26; Japanese PoW – Thailand – Burma Railway.
Captured: 15th February 1942 – Fall of Singapore.
Residence: 113, Ranelagh Road, Ipswich.
Employed: by the Ipswich Co-operative Society.
Rank: Lance Sergeant; Service Number: 5829803.
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 4th Battalion – Infantry.
Grave Reference:
9.N.4.
Thailand.
Relatives Notified & Address: Youngest son of George Ernest & Harriet Ellen Thirkettle, of Ipswich.
Father: George Ernest Thirkettle, born 1876, Moulton St. Mary, Norfolk.
Mother: Harriet Ellen Thirkettle (nee Wymer), born March 1881, Moulton St. Mary, Norfolk.
Probate to Harriet Ellen Thirkettle – mother.
Charles is also remembered on St Mary at Stoke Church memorial, Ipswich.
4th Battalion:
The Battalions were attached to the 18th East Anglian Division.
15 February 1942: After the fall of Singapore, approximately 620 of the Battalions were taken POW and later mostly died on the Burma-Thailand Railway.
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