Name: ALLAM, HERBERT HENRY ROY
Initials: H H R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Wiltshire Regiment
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 18
Date of Death: 27/12/1944
Service No: 14753122
Additional information: Son of John Frederick and Mary Ann Allam, of Brighton, Sussex.

Brothers: Frederick, Arthur and Reginald

Sisters: Evelyn, Mary, Doreen, Jacqueline, Elizabeth and Kathleen

Last Known Address: 19 Kingsbury Street, Brighton. UK
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. 160.
Cemetery: BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY
Adopted by: Ben Savelkoul

H.H. Roy Allam †

Roy † and Arthur Allam †

 

Arthur Godfrey Allam

Roy's older brother Arthur G. Allam died (4 September 1942) in a Japanese Prisoner Camp.

Arthur was captured as Hong Kong fell and taken Prisoner of War (25 December 1941) As the poor nutrition and unhygienic conditions of the POW camps took effect, there were outbreaks of all sorts of dysentery - the biggest killer of POWs - and (starting in around August 1942) a terrifying diphtheria epidemic. Arthur was one of the first victims of the latter. Initially he was buried on Argyle Street but was reinterred at Sai Wan War Cemetery

Hong Kong War Diary

Sai Wan War Cemetery

Source-Bron: David Sherwood + Ben Savelkoul + Tony Banham

http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/Roy_Allam.htm