Rakuyo Maru
Also Named: Rokyo Maru
This Page Is Dedicated To
996280
Gunner
Newstead, John Kenneth
United Kingdom
Royal Artillery
512 Battery 148 (The Bedfordshire Yeo.) Field Regiment
Japanese POW
Survived/Died:
Died
Age:
22
Date of Death:
1944/09/12
Place of Death:
Rakuyo Maru - Sunk off East Hainan Island, Lat 18.0 N Lon 114.0E.
Loved Ones
Son of Thomas and Kate Newstead, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire
Memorial
Column 38.
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
Torpedoed and sunk on 12/09/1944 by US submarine Sealion off East Hainan island at around 5:00am. 1159 were lost.
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“We will remember them”
Keeping The Candle Burning
In Memory of FEPOW Family Loved OnesDesigned and Maintained by Ron Taylor.
Honorary member of COFEPOW
Site Management - Ron.Taylor@roll-of-honour.org.uk
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