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Breavington, Rodney Edward
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Australian Army Ordnance Corps
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Far East - Prisoner of the Japanese
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Source:
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On John Bradford's list. Received the MID executed after recapture
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Escape:
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Age:
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Date of Death:
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Cause of Death:
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Executed 2nd September 1942 by the Indian National Army guards with rifles
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Place of Death:
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Selarang Barracks, Changi
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Loved Ones
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Son of Edward Kindred Breavington and Fanny Breavington; husband of Margaret Breavington, of Fairfield, Victoria, Australia
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Memorial
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Kranji War Cemetery is 22 kilometres north of the city of Singapore, on the north side of Singapore Island overlooking the Straits of Johore.
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CWGC has him as a Private. Recaptured 16th February 1942. Posthumous Mentioned in Despatches 1947. General Fukuye (later hung for war crimes) ordered Lt-Gen E. B. Holmes, and his deputy, Brigadier Galleghan, to attend the execution.
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