OLLY VALENTINE GARNER
Image taken from the Evening Star – 9th April 1942.
Registered at birth HOLLEY VALENTINE GARNER.
Born: Valentine’s Day 1913, Ipswich.
Died: 23rd September 1943; age: 39; Japanese PoW – Thailand – Burma Railway.
Captured: 15th February 1942 – Fall of Singapore.
Residence: 32, Nottingham Road, Stapleford, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Private/Drummer; Service Number: 5824786.
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 4th Battalion, 18th Division.
Grave Reference:
B4.T.12.
Mon State,
Burma.
Image courtesy of Kevin Knights.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Archibald Llewellyn Garner & Amelia Garner, of Ipswich; foster – son of Mrs L.W. Addison, of Ipswich.
Father: Archibald Llewellyn Garner, born 1883, Dovercourt, Essex.
Mother: Amelia Garner (nee Garnham (1st marriage Askew)), born March 1870, New Street, Ipswich – died 1946, Ipswich.
Foster Mother: Lillie Anna Willamore Addison (nee Gammage), born 1881, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Family home and shop – 1 & 2, Mason Street, Ipswich.
Probate to Archibald Llewellyn Garner – father. A General Shopkeeper.
4th and 5th Battalions:
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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