M.L. Wynne (Kranji War Memorial)

Mervyn Llewelyn Wynne / M.L. Wynne was the former Deputy Inspector General of Police for the Straits Settlement. M.L. Wynne died during internment in Pladjoe, Sumatra on 4 April 1942 and his ashes returned to Singapore and laid to rest at Bidadari Cemetery on 19 April 1948. The ceremony was attended by a large number of officers and men of the Singapore and Federation of Malaya Police Forces. He was 51 when he passed away as a Prisoner of War in 1942 due to bacillary dysentery. 

Mervyn Llewlyn Wayme was born on 7 February 1891 and was educated at Corrig School, Ireland, Ellesmere College, Hanover and Munich in Germany. He was from a distinguished Anglo-Irish family, the Wynnes of Hazlebrook, County Mayo whose family has produced many eminent adminstrators, soldier and even privy-councillors. His great grandfather was Viscount Guillamore (the last person to be granted an Irish peerage). His father was an officer in the Royal Irish Constabulary was killed in a riot in Cork in the 1890's. 

M.L. Wynne 

Career 

M/L. Wayne entered the Police on 1 December 1911 and was sent to China to study Cantonese. On his return he served as an O.C.P.D  in Jelebu being one of the first gazetted officers to occupy an executive Police post as opposed to an administrative one. From 1916 to 1919, he was on active service with the Rifle Brigade and when he returned to Malaya, posted as the first officer to be Commandant of a Police Depot in Malaya. 

1923 -  Commissioner of Police, Terengganu

1929 -  Commissioner of Police, Johore 

1933 -  Chief Police Officer, Perak

1936 -  Promoted to Senior Deputy Commissioners, Malayan Police Service 

1940 -Deputy Inspector General of Police Straits Settlement (Crime and Political). 

Family

Wife: Nancy Kathleen Wynne

Mrs. Nancy Kathleen Wynne (widow) remarried to Capt. Phillip C. Bullock, O.B.E. late 20th Lancers of the Military Government, Berlin. 

Location of tomb 

Former Bidadari Cemetery - now at Kranji War Memorial 

Deputy Inspector General M.L. Wynne Straits Settlement Police Force 

Variant Names

M.L Wynne 

Mervyn Le Wynne

Meryn Llewelyn

References 

Federal Appointments. (1912, January 23). Straits Echo, page 4 

New Police Post. (1940, April 29). The Straits Times, page 10 

Mr. M.L. Wynne. (1948, April 20). The Singapore Free Press, page 5 

Meryn Le Wynne, An Appreciation. (1948, April 20). Malaya Tribune, page 6 

The London. (1950, January 8). Sunday Tribune, page 7