Cholerton, Norman Edwin

1917 – 1975

"Lieutenant Norman Edwin Cholerton (1917-1975) was the son of Joseph Roberts Cholerton of Duffield House near Derby. He entered the military forces at the age of 18. He became a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and in 1940 sailed for Singapore. Two years later he was captured by the Japanese in the Battle of Singapore and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Thailand. He is recorded as being in Camp 4 which was Kanburi – one of the famous camps because of its involvement in the building of the Burma Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai. He returned to Derby after the War and in 1946 married Helena Mary Allen (1922-1991). Four years later he moved into Hilton house where he lived with his family for ten years. He then went to Wormsley Farm, Shirley Brailsford where he remained until his death in 1975. "