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Owen Gilbert Newman
Owen Gilbert Newman.

Owen Gilbert Newman
1924-1944

Owen Newman was the youngest of the six children of Alfred Newman and Clara Gilbert of Waterside in Ely, Cambridgeshire.

Owen served as a Sapper (#2009982, 288 Field Company.) with the Royal Engineers during the Second World War.

Sadly he was taken Prisoner of War by the Japanese and joined 900 other British troops onboard the Kachidoki Maru ship, heading to Japan.

The ship was torpedoed and sunk by USS Pampanito, just North East of Hainan Island, near China on 12th September 1944. 400 British soldiers lost their lives.






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Born:
1924, Ely, Cambridgeshire.

Died:
12th September 1944, on board the Kachidoki Maru ship, North East of Hainan Island, near China.

Buried:
12th September 1944 at sea, near Hainan Island, China.

Commemorated:
Column 41 of the Singapore Memorial, Singapore.


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