Patrick James Townsend SKIPWITH [1915-2009]

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Names
Given
Patrick James Townsend
Family
Skipwith
Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
Born
Date
Birthplace (country)
India
Died
Date
Died in (country)
England

Birth & death dates from Ancestry.co.uk

On 24 Feb 1941 he married Beryl Daisy Fair at St John's Cathedral in Hong Kong. (Source: Carl Smith Card 142063, which noted Skipwith was a Captain in the Royal Artillery.)

In Dec 1941 he was Captain Adjutant with the 8 Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Source: Hong Kong War Diary), so he spent the following years of WW2 as a POW in Hong Kong.

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