D Database

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

Compiled with the help of the Commonwealth War Graves and Martin Stiles

This Page is Dedicated To

5950041

Private

Donovan, Philip James

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

5th Battalion

Associate Regiment and Unit:-

Unknown

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1944/09/12

Cause of Death:

Japanese PoW lost at sea

Place of Death:

Rakuyo Maru, Convoy HI-72 sailed from Singapore, torpedoed and sunk by the US submarine Sealion at around 5:00am off East Hainan Island, Lat 18.0 N Lon 114.0E

Loved Ones

Son of James and Florence Donovan; husband of Elizabeth Mary Donovan, of Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire.

Memorial

Column 63.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Kranji War Cemetery west of the Singapore-Johore road (Bukit Timah Expressway) on Woodlands Road

Singapore

4 Group from Thailand-Burma Railway

“We will remember them”

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