R Database

Cambridgeshire Regiment

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

This Page is Dedicated To

5932777

Private

Rice, John William

Cambridgeshire Regiment

1st 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

Son of Arthur and Blanche Rice, of Girton, Cambridge.

Memorial

Column 60.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

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

Singapore

4 Group from Thailand-Burma Railway

Keeping The Candle Burning

In Memory o f Fred Taylor, Arthur Lane, John Weedon and Reg Rainer
Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

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Honorary Life Member-1tn

Lifetime Honary Member of COFEPOW

Ron.Taylor@roll-of-honour.org.uk