C Database

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

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

This Page is Dedicated To

5950050

Private

Cockburn, Francis William

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

5th Battalion

Associate Regiment and Unit:-

Unknown

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1944/09/12

Cause of Death:

Japanese PoW lost at sea

Place of Death:

Rakuyo Maru, Convoy HI-72 sailed from Singapore, torpedoed and sunk by the US submarine Sealion at around 5:00am off East Hainan Island, Lat 18.0 N Lon 114.0E

Loved Ones

Husband of Gladys Cockburn, of Bedford.

Memorial

Column 62.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

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

Singapore

4 Group from Thailand-Burma Railway

“We will remember them”

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