Personnel who Died

Plymouth Argyll Royal Marines

Compiled from the list by Jonathan Moffatt

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page is Dedicated To

PLY/X100147

Marine

JAMES ALAN

BENSON

Royal Marines

H.M.S. Prince of Wales (Sultan)

Japanese POW

Captured:

POW 1942/02/15 SINGAPORE

Transported 1:

TO THAILAND

Transported 2:

TO JAPAN

Camps 1:

Singapore Gen. Hosp. to Changi 26.2.42. To Kranji 16.4.42-13.6.42. To Ban Pong 22.6.42, Chungkai 9.10.42. Japan O

Camps 2:

party 6.44

Died

Died CWGC:

1944/09/21

Died as POW:

Lost at sea 9.44 - Hofuku Maru

Age:

Loved Ones

Son of George and Elizabeth Benson, of St. Helens, Lancashire

Memorial

Panel 92, Column 1.

PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Hofuku Maru - Sunk by planes from American Aircraft Carrier, 80 miles north of Corregidor.

“We will remember them”

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