Neal, Ronald Charles (Flight Sergeant)

Prisoner of War Japan Died 1945-June-02

Flight Sergeant Ronald Charles Neal RCAF

Birth Date: 1916-December-30

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Home: Edmonton, Alberta

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: 1940-December-01

Service

RCAF

Unit

70 Wing- Wing (RAF)

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

radio mechanic

Service Numbers

R/76883

Home
Google MapEdmonton, Alberta
Final Burial
Google MapMacassar War Cemetery
33 F 3

LAC Neal 70 Wing AMES, embarked the United Kingdom on December 4, 1941 on Athlone Castle and transhipped to South Africa on the ship City of Canterbury. He arrived in Batavia and was paid on February 10, 1942, there was no further record of him due to the unsettled conditions there. He was taken Prisoner of War by the Japanese on March 8, 1942 and died as a prisoner on June 2, 1945 at PoW Camp, Raha Moena, Ambon Island.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Unit Desciption

70 Wing (No. 70 (Signals) Wing RAF)

No. 70 Wing, Royal Air Force (signals and radar, Air Ministry Experimental Stations): part of No. 60 Group, with its northern signals work at Inverness on the eve of D-Day (Wikipedia, No. 60 Group RAF); an RCAF radar mechanic was a prisoner of the Japanese in Java. TO BE CHECKED: its history and its Far East party.