HERBERT WILLIAM SAMUEL SHEMMING
Image from the Evening Star – 9th April 1942.
Born: 24th September 1904, Ipswich.
Died: 18th December 1943; age: 39; died of Bacillary Dysentery as a Japanese PoW on the Thailand-Burma Railway.
Captured: 15th February 1942 – Fall of Singapore.
Residence: 73, Tyler Street, Ipswich.
Employed: with the Loco Works – London and North Eastern Railway.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 5823115.
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 4th Battalion.
Originally buried at Tasao No. 2. Cemetery, grave 455. Body exhumed and identified by records before re-burial at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery on the 1st March 1946.
Grave Reference:
4.D.44.
Thailand.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of George & Hannah Susan Shemming, of Ipswich.
Paternal cousin to BERTRAM VICTOR SHEMMING
CENSUS
1911 73, Tyler Street, Ipswich.
Herbert was 6 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
George Shemming, 43, a Boiler Rivetter – Foundry – Ransome & Rapier, born Hoxne, Suffolk.
Hannah Susan Shemming (nee Sheldrake), 37, born Ipswich.
Charles George Shemming, 11, born Ipswich.
Ellen Harriett Shemming, 8, born Ipswich.
1 boarder.
In 1941, Ipswich, Herbert married Catherine Shields.
Probate to Catherine Shemming – widow.
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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