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Miles, Benjamin L.

 

 

Date Born:-

 

 

Home Town:-

Leeds, Yorkshire. Born Thorpe, Wakefield.

 

Parents:-

Benjiman B. Miles and Elsie M. Miles, of Leeds, Yorkshire

 

Next of Kin:-

 

 

Occupation:-

Motor Engineer

 

 

Service

Enlisted:-

 

 

Regiment:-

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

 

Unit:-

2nd Battalion

 

 

 

Conflict:-

Far East - World War 2

 

Place of Capture:-

Singapore, 1942/02/15

 

 

 

Japanese PoW Index Card - Side One

Japanese PoW Index Card - Side Two

 

 

Died

Age:-

25

 

Date of Death:-

1943/12/24

 

Place of Death:-

 

 

Cause of Death:-

Dysentery

 

Memorial:-

7. L. 4.

 

Cemetery:-

CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY

 

 

Notes

Transported overland to Thailand 1943/03/22. Died Thailand.

 

Place of Japanese PoW Index Card -

Thailand

 

 

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Yorkshire

 

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