To honour those who served their country

“In this their finest hour”

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Private

Balaam, Edward George

 

Suffolk Regiment

5th Battalion

 

Nationality

United Kingdom

 

Japanese POW

 

Died

Age:

23

Date of Death:

1943/07/12

Place of Death:

Songkurai No.2 Camp, Thailand-Burma Railway

Cause of Death:

Diptheria. Buried Cemetery 1, Block D, Row -, Grave 4, (239)

Source:

CWGC, WO 361/2234, WO 361/1344

 

Loved Ones

Son of Ernest Edward and Rossetta Harriet Balaam; husband of Christina Rose Mary Balaam, of Capel St. Mary, Suffolk

 

Memorial

B3. Q. 9.

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery

 

'F' Force, left Singapore by train, 1943/04/18-30. After the war moved to Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.

 

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