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SEIKU WONGARA, Driver, GC/14121. Royal West African Frontier Force. 23rd April 1946. 12. C. 16.
SEMMENS, Leading Aircraftman, ALFRED BERTRAM, 3005331. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 24th February 1947. Age 21. Son of Emily Florence Semmens, of Fulham, London. 3. H. 4.
SEMU, Private, RHO/2363. Rhodesian African Rifles. 12th August 1945. 1. A. 3.
SEWELL, Private, HARRY HENRY, 5627351. 13th Bn. The King's Regiment (Liverpool). 30th April 1945. Age 30. 6. D. 3.
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SEAGRIM, Major, HUGH PAUL, G C, D S O, M B E, 49359. 19th Hyderabad Regiment. 14th September 1944. Age 35. Son of the Reverend Charles Paulet Conyngham Seagrim and Amabel Emma Halsted Seagrim, of East Dean, Eastbourne, Sussex. His brother, Derek Anthony, also fell and was awarded the Victoria Cross. 4. A. Collective Grave 13-20. The following details are given in the London Gazette of September 12th, 1946: "Awarded the George Cross for most conspicuous gallantry in carrying out hazardous work in a very brave manner."
Major Seagrim was the leader of a party which included two other British and one Keren officer working in the Keren Hills of Burma. By the end of 1943 the Japanese had learned of this party who then commenced a campaign of arrests and torture to determine their whereabouts. In February 1944 the other two British officers were ambushed and killed but Major Seagrim and the Keren officer escaped. The Japanese then arrested 270 Kerens and tortured and killed many of them but still they continued to support Major Seagrim. To end further suffering to the Kerens, Seagrim surrendered himself to the Japanese on 15th March 1944. He was taken to Rangoon and together with eight others he was sentenced to death. He pleaded that the others were following his orders and as such they should be spared, but they were determined to die with him and were all executed.
SETE GURUNG, Rifleman, 49926. 4th Bn. 4th Prince of Wales' Own Gurkha Rifles. 30th May 1945. Age 21. Son of Buda Sing and Phisti, of Manbu Byesi, Nedal. 15. H. 3.
SETE GURUNG, Lance Naik, 68075. 3rd Bn. 6th Gurkha Rifles. 3rd August 1945. Age 24. Son of Nar Bahadur and Nyaori, of Talogaon, Nepal; husband of Asuri. 15. E. 4.
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