Amos George John Solomon
A Private with 6th Battalion, Amos died on 16th of July 1943 aged 22.
Amos was born in Oulton Broad on 21 February 1921, a son of John William and Ethel May Solomon. By 1939 his family were living at 12 Hadenham Terrace, Carlton Colville, and Amos was a carter. When he enlisted, he stated that he was a farm labourer. Later his family lived at 43 Lowestoft Road, Carlton Colville.
Amos served with the 6th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment. In late 1939 the 6th Battalion was stationed at Sheringham and in spring 1940 guarded the coast from Sheringham to Overstrand. In August 1940 the Battalion moved to Holt and later in the year they moved to Weybourne, and then Swaffham.
The 6th Battalion was part of the 18th (East Anglian) Division and in January 1941 the Division moved to Scotland until April when they moved to Hartford and in August to Knowsley Park, Lancashire. In October the Division received orders that they were to go overseas, and the 6th Battalion embarked on the S.S. Duchess of Atholl, at Gourouk, and sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 27 October 1941. The Battalion, being part of the 53rd Brigade, was transferred to S.S. Mount Vernon and sailed for Trinidad and then Cape Town, arriving on 9 December 1941 and three days shore leave was granted.
On 13 December 1941 they sailed for Bombay, but orders came redirecting them to Mombassa and then Singapore, where they disembarked on 13 January 1942. From 16 January they were involved in the battle to save Malaya.
Amos was reported missing at Singapore on 15 February 1942. He was taken prisoner and on 7 November 1942 he was in a group of men taken overland to work on the Burma Railway. In July 1943 he was at the Nanchon Yai camp where he died from acute enteritis. In 1946 he was reburied at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
On a final note, I will just leave you with clarification of the link I made between the two Amos Solomons in "Our Fallen".
Amos Albert John Solomon (1898-1917) was the son of John William Solomon and his first wife Sarah Jane (mn Brooks), who died in 1913. Amos was killed on 26 Sep 1917, during the Battle of Polygon Wood (part of the wider Battle of Passchendaele or Third Ypres).
Widow John William Solomon had remarried to Ethel May Bullard. Their second child and first son Amos George John Solomon was born in Oulton Broad on 21 Feb 1919. He was captured at the Fall of Singapore on 15 Feb 1942 and died in captivity on 16 Jul 1943. Although the family were recorded as living at 12 Hadenham Terrace (Carlton Colville) in the 1939 Register, Amos' probate record (probate date 12 Nov 1945) gives his address as 34 Lowestoft Road, Carlton Colville. Not quite sure how to explain this apparent discrepancy, although probate was granted to his mother Ethel, so perhaps this was his parents' address in 1945 when the will was probated? To be clarified.
Anyway, as I mentioned during the presentation, the two Amos Solomons were half-brothers, with the younger boy being born after his brother's death and named for him. Both are also commemorated in Carlton Colville St Peters, the older Amos on the WW1 tablet, and the younger Amos in the WW2 Book of Remembrance. CREDIT:Andy Pearce
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Amos Solomon
12
Hadenham Terrace
Carlton Colville
United Kingdom
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