James Henry Baskett

Biography

James Baskett was born in 1921, the son of George and Emma Baskett.  He was christened at St Martins-in-the-Cornmarket, Worcester on 8th July 1921.  The family at this time was living at 2 Sutton Place, New Street, Worcester; his father was recorded as a soldier.

On the 1939 Register, George and Emma Baskett were living at 31 Church Road, Malvern Link; George was working as a postman.

The 2nd The Gordon Highlanders were captured after the Japanese took Singapore in February 1942.

James died of cholera at Nam Chon Yai Camp whilst a prisoner of the Japanese on the Thailand-Burma railway the following July.  He was buried in Nam Chon Yai Cemetery and later moved to Kanchanaburi War Cemetery