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Killed in Action
288 Field Company
Royal Engineers
History
Compiled by Ron Taylor
2009982
Sapper
Newman, Owen Gilbert
United Kingdom
Royal Engineers
288 Field Company
18th Division
Died
Date:-
1944/09/12
Age:-
24
Information:-
Hell Ship:- Kachidoki Maru - Sailed 1944/09/04 from Singapore. Sunk by US submarine Pampanito, North East of Hainan Island off China.
Memorial
Column 41.
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
Singapore
Loved Ones
Son of Alfred and Clara Emma Newman, of Ely, Cambridgeshire.
Notes
Overland to Thailand 1943/03/23 with 'D' Force, train 9. Commander Lt-Col. G.G. Carpenter, 1st Cambridgeshire Reg. with Lt-Col. McEachern, AIF.