No

Surname

Rank

Service

Date of Death

Age

Regiment

Nationality

Grave/Memorial Ref.

Cemetery/Memorial Name

1

ADLEY, RONALD CHARLES

Aircraftman 1st Class

633816

01/08/1943

21

Royal Air Force

United Kingdom

8. H. 5.

CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY

Name:

ADLEY, RONALD CHARLES

Initials:

R C

Nationality:

United Kingdom

Rank:

Aircraftman 1st Class

Regiment:

Royal Air Force

Age:

21

Date of Death:

01/08/1943

Service No:

633816

Additional information:

Son of Charles and Minnie Gertrude Adley, of Dover; husband of Phyllis Eileen Adley, of Dover.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

8. H. 5.

Cemetery:

CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY        

Cemetery:

CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY

Country:

Thailand

Locality:

unspecified

Visiting Information:

Wheelchair access to this cemetery with some difficulty. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on telephone number 01628 507200.

Location Information:

Chungkai War Cemetery is approximately 5 kilometres west of Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. It can be reached by road over the narrow Sudjai Bridge, by ferry crossing at the junction of the two rivers, or by any of the many river boats running up and down the rivers. The war cemetery can be located on city maps available at the tourist office.

Historical Information:

The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of the project, chiefly forced labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies or conscripted in Siam (Thailand) and Burma (Myanmar). Two labour forces, one based in Siam and the other in Burma, worked from opposite ends of the line towards the centre. The Japanese aimed at completing the railway in 14 months and work began in October 1942. The line, 424 kilometres long, was completed by December 1943. The graves of those who died during the construction and maintenance of the Burma-Siam railway (except for the Americans, whose remains were repatriated) were transferred from camp burial grounds and isolated sites along the railway into three cemeteries at Chungkai and Kanchanaburi in Thailand and Thanbyuzayat in Myanmar. Chungkai was one of the base camps on the railway and contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. The war cemetery is the original burial ground started by the prisoners themselves, and the burials are mostly of men who died at the hospital. There are now 1,427 Commonwealth and 314 Dutch burials of the Second World War in this cemetery. The cemetery was designed by Colin St Clair Oakes.

No. of Identified Casualties:

1691

Name:

ADDLEY, ARTHUR ALBERT

Initials:

A A

Nationality:

United Kingdom

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Unit Text:

2/4th Bn.

Age:

38

Date of Death:

14/10/1944

Service No:

1758595

Additional information:

Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Addley; husband of G. M. Addley, of Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

II, D, 3.

Cemetery:

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY 

Cemetery:

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY

Country:

Italy

Locality:

unspecified

Visiting Information:

The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime. Wheelchair access to the cemetery is possible via main entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on telephone number 01628 507200.

Location Information:

The War Cemetery forms part of the locality of Rivotorto in the Commune of Assisi, in the Province of Perugia. From Rome, take the Autostrada A1, Rome-Milan. Come off at Orte and go along the SS3 bis to Perugia following the signs for Assisi. Take the road to Rivotorto and at a crossroads, from which a church is visible, turn left and the cemetery is about 500 metres down this road.

Historical Information:

On 3 September 1943 the Allies invaded the Italian mainland, the invasion coinciding with an armistice made with the Italians who then re-entered the war on the Allied side. Progress through southern Italy was rapid despite stiff resistance, but the advance was checked for some months at the German winter defensive position known as the Gustav Line. The line eventually fell in May 1944 and as the Germans withdrew, Rome was taken by the Allies on 3 June. Many of the burials in this cemetery date from June and July 1944, when the Germans were making their first attempts to stop the Allied advance north of Rome in this region. The site for the cemetery was selected in September 1944 and burials were brought in from the surrounding battlefields. Assisi War Cemetery contains 945 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.

No. of Identified Casualties:

945