ERIC AVORY ALFRED ALDIS

Born: 21st June 1915, Ipswich.

Died: 3:30pm, 30th March 1945; age: 29;  Died of Malaria as a Japanese PoW at Batu Lintang Camp, Kuching, Borneo.

Certified by Lt. Kalsuji Yamamoto – Medical Officer.

Captured: 9th March 1942.

Residence: 11, Beatty Road, Ipswich.

Employed: as a Bus Conductor before going to war. Eric also worked for Peter’s ice cream in his teens.

Departed from Java – 22nd September 1942 – with 1300 PoWs – arrived Singapore.

Departed Singapore – 9th October 1942 on board ‘Hiteru Maru’ – destination Borneo.

 Contracted Malaria – 24th January 1945.

Rank: Gunner; Service Number: 1548943

Regiment: Royal Artillery, 49 Battery, 48 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment.

Body buried 30^th March 1945 at Lintang Camp Cemetery – E.16. On the 15^th September 1946 the body was exhumed and laid to rest at Labuan War Cemetery.

Grave Reference:

R.B.4.

Labuan War Cemetery,

Labuan,

Malaysia.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of A.A. Aldis & Grace Aldis, of 48, Cobbold Street, Ipswich; husband of Lily Grace Aldis, of Ipswich.

Father: Avory Alfred Godbold Aldis, born 1895, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

Mother: Grace Constance Aldis (nee Bridges), born 1894, Ipswich.

  Eric

Eric Aldis and family. L to R Grace, Eric, Roy, Eva & Avory.

In 1936, Ipswich, Eric married Lily Grace Potter, born May 1916, Ipswich – daughter of George William Potter, an engine driver for London North Eastern Railway & Louise Potter (nee Woods), of 71, Great Whip Street, Ipswich. 

They had 2 children.

ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939.

Eric and Lily were living with their two children at their family home – 11, Beatty Road, Ipswich. Eric was employed as a Bus Conductor, and at a Grocery Provisions as a Shop Assistant.

A family note:

Photographs and extra information courtesy of Dee.