LAST week was the 75th anniversary of the fall of Singapore.

During the battle to hold Singapore on February 15, 1942, George Fernando was reported missing and presumed dead.

George was born January 30, 1919 in Mungindi, south- west Queensland, and enlisted in Proserpine on June 14, 1940.

He was taken on strength with the 2/26th Battalion and disembarked in Singapore on January 24, 1942.

He is remembered on the Murgon and Proserpine cenotaphs, also the Singapore Memorial.

Twenty-eight Proserpine men were taken as prisoners of war and 14 died while in captivity.

Some of the men are listed here:

Abell, Maurice Richard, 2/19th Battalion - Changi - Burma Railway, Japan

Anderssen, Leslie Nigel, 2/26th Battalion - Changi

Biggs, Harry William, 2/26th Battalion - Changi - Thai-Burma Railway

Cameron, Finlay 2/10th Field Regiment - Sabah, Borneo

Farrell, Jack Thomas, 2/26th Battalion - Thai Burma Railway

Faust, Joseph Frederick, 2/26th Battalion -Thai-Burma Railway Ship to Japan

Fraser, James Fitzgerald, 2/26th Battalion - Changi - Sandakan

Hunt, Reginald Frank, QX18843, 2/26 Battalion - Singapore, F Force - Thai-Burma Railway

Ironside, George Anton QX113334 27 Brigade Company Japan

Isbel, Cecil Ernest, QX11408, 2/26 Battalion - B Force - Borneo

Jamieson, Arthur, QX11728, 2/29 Battalion - Singapore, F Force - Thai-Burma Railway - died while a POW

Johnson, Allen Maxwell, QX11334, 2 Company - Thailand - D Force- died while a POW

The Whitsunday Family History Group's project on the Second World War is drawing to an end and the book will be going to print in March.

If you have a relative who needs to be included let the Proserpine Community Centre know.