LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Hubert John WILLIAMS
Service No: 404694
Born: Brisbane QLD, 25 July 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 8 November 1940
Unit: Assigned to No. 266 Wing (RAF)
Died: Illness (Dysentery): Prisoner of War, 3 November 1943, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Wilfrid Percy and Lillias Williams, of Coorparoo, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 3 November 1943, Flight Sergeant Williams a Pilot, died of dysentery in the Turasoe PoW Camp, Thailand. He arrived in the Far East in February 1942 on the ship “City of Canterbury and was taken prisoner in Java in March 1942.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/43/953
Bibliography:
Hall, E.R. (Eldred Rayner) (O3341) Glory in Chaos: In the Vanguard of the War with Japan, Buffaloes in the Lion’s Lair, In Service with the Lion, Sembawang Association West Coburg VIC, 1989