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9th Coast Regiment

 

Supplied by Michael Nellis

With the help of the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page is Dedicated To

806657

Serjeant

Pierce, Robert

 

United Kingdom

Royal Artillery

9 Coast Regiment

 

Japanese POW

Force:

 
 

Work Areas:

 
 

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

31

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 John Hugh Pierce, and of Elizabeth Pierce, of Kirkhamgate, Yorkshire

 

Memorial

Column 5.

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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“We will remember them”

 

 

 

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