Donald Arthur Wright
Painter and Decorator
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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.
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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