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This Page is Dedicated To

7591250

Private

Fletcher, Eric

 

United Kingdom

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

 

 

 

Far East - Prisoner of the Japanese

Died

Source:

Wikepedia/CWGC

Escape:

1942 Attempted Escape

Age:

21

Date of Death:

1942/09/02

Cause of Death:

Executed 2nd September 1942 by the Indian National Army guards with rifles

Place of Death:

Selarang Barracks, Changi

 

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Memorial

10. D. 5.

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY

Kranji War Cemetery is 22 kilometres north of the city of Singapore, on the north side of Singapore Island overlooking the Straits of Johore.

Singapore

 

General Fukuye ordered the Commander of the British and Australian troops in Changi, Lt-Gen E. B. Holmes, and his deputy, Brigadier Galleghan, to attend the execution. After the war General Fukuye was hung for war crimes.

 

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