Sergeant John Colvile WALTERS (5395)
3rd (Penang & Province Wellesley Volunteer Corps) Battalion Straits Settlements Volunteer Force

Date of birth: 2nd September 1905
Date of death: 15th December 1943

Died aged 38
Buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Plot 2 Row C Grave 42
John Colvile Walters was born at Chertsey in Surrey on the 2nd of September 1905 the elder son of Alfred Hugh Walters, a member of the Stock Exchange, and Mildred Elizabeth (nee Colvile) Walters of Banborough Hall. He was christened at All Saints Church, Woodham in Surrey on the 7th of October 1905.

He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Fields House from September 1919 to December 1922. He was in the Running VIII in 1922 and gained his School Certificate in 1921.

In 1925 he joined the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and worked on the foreign staff for their Calcutta and Colombo branches from 1928 to 1932. In 1934 he moved to their Shanghai Branch. In 1936 he became engaged to Eileen Margaret (nee Parkhill) they were married at Shanghai, Kiangsu Province on the 10th of May 1937. On his arrival on a trip to Canada on the 6th of June 1939 it was recorded that he was six feet tall and that he had a fair complexion, black hair and brown eyes.

He was captured at Singapore on the 15th of February 1942 and died of cardiac beri beri at Kamburi Hospital in Thailand.

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