HORACE RAYMOND FOX

Horace is not remembered on the war memorial at Christchurch Park.

Image from the Evening Star – 14th April 1942.

Born: 20th September 1917, 96, Cemetery Road, Ipswich.

Died: 21st September 1944; age: 26; as a Japanese POW.

Captured: 15th February 1942 – Fall of Singapore.

Residence: 137, Avondale Road, Ipswich.

Occupation: a Gent’s Hairdresser.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 5827792.

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 4th Battalion.

Memorial Reference:

Panel 55.

Singapore Memorial,

Kranji,

Singapore.

Relatives Notified & Address: Youngest son of Bernard & Violet May Fox, of Ipswich.

Father: Bernard Fox, born 1875, Ipswich.

Mother: Violet May Fox (nee Cattermole), born May 1880, Saxmundham, Suffolk.

Brother: Bernard William Fox, born 1914, Ipswich – died 1930, Woodbridge, Suffolk.

Sister and twin to Philip Joseph: Mary Angela Fox, born 1916, Ipswich – died July 1916, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1921   94, Cemetery Road, Ipswich.

Horace was 3 years and 9 months old and lived with his parents and brothers.

Bernard Fox, 45 years & 2 months old, a Music Shop Assistant for Mr. Henry Whillier’s Music Store, at 31, Carr Street, Ipswich.

Violet Fox, 41 years & 1 month old, Home Duties.

George Francis Fox, 6 years & 4 months old, at School, born Ipswich.

Philip Joseph Fox, 5 years & 4 months old, at School, born Ipswich.

ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939

Horace was a Gent’s Hairdresser. He lived with his widowed mother and brothers at their family home – 137, Avondale Road, Ipswich.

VioletFox, unpaid Domestic Duties.

George Fox, a Cabinet Maker.

Philip Fox, a Brewer’s Labourer.

Probate to George Francis Fox – brother, a Leading Aircraftman – R.A.F.

The Battalion was attached to the 18th East Anglian Division ( including 4/5th Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment)
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.

SUFFOLK REGIMENT MUSEUM

Friends of The Suffolk Regiment

Horace’s portrait and profile will be displayed at a V.J. Day exhibition “Be Ye Men of Valour” from Saturday, 9th August to Monday, 25th August (Bank Holiday) 2025, at St. Margaret’s Church, Ipswich, IP4 2BT.