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9th Coast Regiment

 

Supplied by Michael Nellis

With the help of the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page is Dedicated To

860561

Gunner

Pearson, Alan

 

United Kingdom

Royal Artillery

9 Coast Regiment

 

Japanese POW

Force:

 
 

Work Areas:

 
 

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

27

Date of Death:

1944/09/12

Cause of Death:

 
 

Place of Death:

Off East Hainan island, Lat 18.0 N Lon 114.0E.

Buried:

 
 

 

Loved Ones

Son of Charles and Alice Margaret Pearson, of Hull

 

Memorial

Column 27.

Singapore Memorial

 

Being transported to Japan in the Rakuyo Maru, torpedoed and sunk on 12/09/1944 by US submarine Sealion off East Hainan island at around 5:00am. 1159 were lost.

 

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