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Aircraftman 1st Class
Douglas Leonard Smith
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
211 Squadron
Japanese PoW
Captured Java 8th March 1942
Camps Java, Moluccas (Haruku, Ambon)
Being transported from Ambon on the 19th September 1944 to Raja/Makassar/Surabaya with 650 PoWs
Died
Age 24
25th September 1944
Died on board the Maros Maru and buried at sea.
Out of the 650 prisoners only 325 survived the voyage
Loved Ones
Son of Leonard Smith, and of Margaret Annie Smith, of Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Memorial
Column 441.
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
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