O Database

5th Battalion

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

Compiled with the help of the Commonwealth War Graves and Martin Stiles

This Page is Dedicated To

5949716

Corporal

O'dell, Eric George

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

5th Battalion

Associate Regiment and Unit:-

Unknown

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1944/09/21

Cause of Death:

Japanese PoW lost at sea

Place of Death:

Hofuku Maru sailing with Convoy MATA-27 for Takao in Formosa. Attacked and sunk by planes from an American aircraft carrier about 80 miles north of Corregidor.

Loved Ones

Son of Fredrick George and Edith O'Dell; husband of Gladys Ivy O'Dell, of Bedford.

Memorial

Column 61.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Kranji War Cemetery west of the Singapore-Johore road (Bukit Timah Expressway) on Woodlands Road

Singapore

2 Group from Thailand-Burma Railway

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