Notes
Recovered 31.07.2023 from http://www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/people_2_l/lonnen_na.htm and https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2170890/neely-anthony-lonnen/
CORPORAL NEELY ANTHONY LONNEN
Service Number: 532026
Royal Air Force
Date of Death 27 July 1945
Buried JAKARTA WAR CEMETERY 2. E. 4. Indonesia
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, October 5, 1945 Page 2
ON ACTIVE SERVICE
LONNEN. - On July 27, 1945, while a prisoner in Japanese hands, T/Corpl. Neely Anthony (Tony) Lonnen, R.A.F., aged 27 years, dear brother of Pat [1] and Bunnie.[2] So near liberation.
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Tony Lonnen's Death in Captivity
On Wednesday, Mrs. Douglas Graves,[2] 80 Medina Avenue, Newport, received the distressing news that her brother, T/Cpl. Neely Anthony (Tony) Lonnen, had died whilst a prisoner of war in Malaya. Aged 27, he was the son of the late Mr. F.J. Lonnen, of the Island Stores, Ventnor, and went to Singapore in September 1939. He was taken prisoner in Java in 1942. Last week Mrs. Graves received a card from him from Malaya - the first for 18 months - stating that he was keeping well and cheerful. Tony assisted his father in the business prior to joining the R.A.F. in '37.