To honour those who served their country
“In this their finest hour”
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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 WeedonMaintained by Ron Taylor.
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