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Serjeant
Arthur Charles Warner
Royal Artillery
H.Q., Fixed Defences (Malaya)
Japanese POW
Captured Singapore
Worked on the Thailand-Burma Railway
When the railway was finished Arthur was transported on the Rakuyo Maru destination was Japan
Died
Age: 33
12th September 1944
When the Rakuyo Maru was sunk off East Hainan Island.
Lat 18.0 N Lon 114.0E.
Torpedoed and sunk by the US submarine ‘Sealion’ off East Hainan island at around 5:00am. 1159 were lost.
Loved Ones
Son of Thomas and Florence Warner; stepson of Mrs. E. Warner, of Leytonstone, Essex
Memorial
Column 6.
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
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