H Database

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

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

This Page is Dedicated To

5956982

Private

Hewitt, William Frank

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:

Kachidoki Maru, Convoy HI-72 sailed from Singapore. Sunk by USS Pampanito, North East of Hainan Island off China.

Loved Ones

Son of Frank Hewitt, and of Annie Beatrice Hewitt, of Dunstable, Bedfordshire.

Memorial

Column 63.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

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

Singapore

4 Group from Thailand-Burma Railway

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