To honour those who served their country

“In this their finest hour”

5827519

Lance Corporal

Gathercole, Wilfred

 

United Kingdom

Cambridgeshire Regiment

2nd Battalion

 

Japanese POW

Survived/Died

Died

Age

25

Date of Death

1944/09/12

Place of Death

Kachidoki Maru - Sunk North East of Hainan Island off China

 

Loved Ones

Son of Bernard William and Hannah Charlotte Gathercole, of Lakenheath, Suffolk.

 

Memorial

Column 57.

Singapore Memorial

 

Sunk by USS Pampanito. Carrying 900 British prisoners from Singapore to Japan, 400 were lost.

 

 

Britain at War

 

Original design by John Weedon
Maintained by Ron Taylor.

 

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Site Management

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