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2nd Battalion

Gordon Highlander Regiment

 

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

 

This Page is Dedicated To

2077856

Private

Horne, Alexander

 

Gordon Highlanders

2nd Battalion

Associate Regiment and Unit:-

Unknown

 

 

Died

Age:

26

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 John Horne, and of Annie Horne, of Aberdeen.

 

Memorial

Column 79.

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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