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Pte. Cyril Burch
British Army 1st/5th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Newark Notts.
(d.12th Sep 1944)
Cyril Burch drowned on the 12th September 1944, aged 26 and is commemorated on Column 71 on the Singapore Memorial in the Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore.
He was the husband of Freda Burch of 40 Chestnut Ave, Newark, Notts.
He worked on the Burma Railway but was to be sent to Singapore on one of Japanese ships The Hachidoki Maru or the Rakuyo Maru both of which where torpedoed by 2 US Submarines, the USS Pampanito and the USS Sealion on the 12/09/1944.