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9th Coast Regiment

 

Supplied by Michael Nellis

With the help of the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page is Dedicated To

916118

Gunner

Purves, John Sinclair (Ian)

 

United Kingdom

Royal Artillery

9 Coast Regiment

 

Japanese POW

Force:

 
 

Work Areas:

 
 

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

19

Date of Death:

1942/02/15

Cause of Death:

Missing in action at the fall of Singapore.

Place of Death:

Not Known

Buried:

 
 

 

Loved Ones

Son of James S. and Annie Sinclair Purves, of Leith, Edinburgh.

 

Memorial

Column 28.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

 

Reported missing believed Killed in Action, not believed to have been captured. Also remembered Royal Artillery Memorial in the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle.

 

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