Java Index03

 

Compiled from Anthea Beckett’s Java Index

 

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1807016

Gunner

Fitch, Leslie Ernest

 

British

Royal Artillery

RA 21 LAA Regiment 79 Battery

 

Died

Age

22

 

(If Age is shown as 0, age at death is unknown)

1943/11/29

At sea: Suez Maru

 

Loved Ones

Son of Walter and Bessie Fitch, of Waltham Abbey, Essex

 

Memorial

Column 18.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

 

Sunk by USS Bonefish, off Kangean Islands 6º 22' South by 116º 35' East. Japanese Captain Kawano orders the shooting of the prisoners in the water. From 14.15 – 16.30 the Minesweeper W.12 massacres the survivors using machine gun and rifles. No survivors.

 

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