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9th Coast Regiment

 

Supplied by Michael Nellis

With the help of the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page is Dedicated To

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Gunner

Downing, Edgar William

 

United Kingdom

Royal Artillery

9 Coast Regiment

 

Japanese POW

Force:

 
 

Work Areas:

 
 

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

36

Date of Death:

1944/09/12

Cause of Death:

 
 

Place of Death:

North East of Hainan Island off China

Buried:

 
 

 

Loved Ones

Son of Edgar and Elenor Downing, of Dawes Heath, Essex; husband of Winifred A. C. Downing, of Rayleigh, Essex.

 

Memorial

Column 17.

Singapore Memorial

 

Being transported to Japan in the Kachidoki Maru. sunk by USS Pampanito. Carrying 900 British prisoners from Singapore to Japan, 400 were lost.

 

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