The Soldier's Details
- Surname:
- Todd
- First Name:
- Arthur Charles
- Rank:
- Pte
- Regimental #:
- WX12097
- Company:
- C Coy 2/3rd MGB
- Enlisted:
- 11.12.1940
- DOB:
- 3.04.1914
- Place of Birth:
- Bellvue WA
- Mothers's Name:
- McMutrie Melinda
- Religion:
- C of E
- Pre-war Occupation:
- Labourer
- Camps Thailand:
- Hintock
- POW#:
- 6779, 38926 Thailand
- Cause of Death:
- Cholera
- Place of Death:
- Hintock, Thailand
- Date of Death:
- 21.07.1943
- Buried:
- Kanchanaburi Cemetery Row M, Plot 1, Grave 2.
General Description
Review WX12097 Arthur Todd‘s military records held at NAA.
Todd disembarked at Java 1942 with a large contingent of 2/2nd Pioneers and 2/3rd MGB. Their role was to support the Dutch East Indies. In 1943 Todd was one of many POWs to sail to Singapore and rail to Thailand to work on the Burma-Thai railway with Dunlop Force Java No 6 Battalion under Commanding Officer Weary Dunlop.
On his enlistment his NOK was his mother Melinda McMurtrie. His mother died before his war medals could be forwarded – in the intervening years the Army had been unable to contact her as she had moved. His brother was sent Todd’s war medals.
Above: Death Records for Kinsaiyok POW Camp, Burma-Thai Railway. Sadly they include several 2/3rd West Australians including Todd.
He died of Cholera on 21 July 1943 as did 2/3rd mates Jenkins and Holland.
Weary Dunlop wrote in his diary of 21 July (he noted: after midnight of 20th July) – it had been a terrible day and night and he recorded six deaths including Todd.
Information from ‘The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop’ Java and Burma Thai Railway.
