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Lance Corporal

Donald Arthur Wright

Service number 4981812
Military unit 1/5th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Address 12 Wood Street, Mansfield
Date of birth 04 Dec 1915
Date of death 30 Jun 1943 (28 years old)
Place of birth Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Employment, education or hobbies

Painter and Decorator

Family history

Son of Arthur and Ellen Wright of Mansfield. Ellen died in late 1918 along with her new born son, Charles V.
By 1921 Arthur and Donald where living with Ellen's sister Millicent Butler, now married to Edwin Challenor at 20 Cambridge Street, Mansfield.
In 1939 they were lodging with a Mrs Lillian Barlow at 12 Wood Street, Mansfield.

Military history

The 1/5 bn left Liverpool in late 1941 on the P&O liner, Orcades, for the Middle East but whilst at sea they were diverted to the Far East after the bombing of Pearl Harbour. The battalion landed at Singapore on the 29th January and the Japanese began their attack on the 8th of February. Singapore fell on the 15th and the remaining troops were all take captive by the Japanese.
450 men from the Sherwood Foresters lost their lives whislt being held captive from disease, malnourishment, maltreatment and summary execution.

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