No. 5827364, Private, Reginald DEARSLEY
Aged 22
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Reginald Dearsley was born in 5th December 1920 in Wandsworth, London, (Wandsworth Q4-1921 1D:1065), son of Elizabeth Rhoda DEARSLEY, stepson of James RUTTER.
His mother married James RUTTER in 1925. In the 1939 register his step father and mother were at 46 Middle Green, Higham. Step-father [4-12-1882] a farm labourer; mother [7-3-1896] and half sister Elizabeth May [26-5-1926], later Mrs LUPSON Like his step father, he was a farm labourer. He was captured at the capitulation of Singapore to the Japanese on 15th February 1942, where they were last involved just south of the Bukit Timah Road, on the left of the 4th Norfolks. He was sent to work on the Burma Railway, as yet it is not known at which camp he died. He was first buried though in Kanchanaburi No 2 Cemetery and re-interred in 1946 |
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