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Warrant Officer Class II (B.S.M.)

Sumption, Edward

 

United Kingdom

Royal Artillery

241 Bty., 77 H.A.A. Regt.

 

Died

Age

52

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

1943/11/29

At sea: Suez Maru

 

Loved Ones

Husband of Florence Sumption, of Pentre, Glamorgan

 

Memorial

Column 4.

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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