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“In this their finest hour”

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Gunner

Banks, John

 

Royal Artillery

88 Field Regiment

 

Nationality

United Kingdom

 

Japanese POW

 

Died

Age:

25

Date of Death:

1943/07/14

Place of Death:

Songkurai No.2 Camp, Thailand-Burma Railway

Cause of Death:

Diarrhoea. Buried Cemetery 1, Block D, Row -, Grave 6, (261)

Source:

CWGC, WO 361/2234, WO 361/1344

 

Loved Ones

Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Banks and stepson of Mary Banks, of Ribbleton, Preston, Lancashire

 

Memorial

B4. L. 13.

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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In Memory FEPOW Family Loved Ones
Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

 

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