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Killed in Action
Cambridgeshire Regiment
1st Battalion
History
Compiled by Ron Taylor
In Memory of David Langton
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Lance Corporal
Gathercole, Wilfred
Mentioned in Despatches
United Kingdom
Cambridgeshire Regiment
2nd Battalion
18th Division
Died
Date:-
1944/09/12
Age:-
25
Information:-
Hell Ship:- Kachidoki Maru - Left Singapore 1944/09/04 with Convoy HI-72. Sunk by US submarine Pampanito on way to Japan.
Memorial
Column 57.
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
Singapore
Loved Ones
Son of Bernard William and Hannah Charlotte Gathercole, of Lakenheath, Suffolk.
Notes
Overland to Thailand 1943/03/21 with 'D' Force, train 7. Commander Lt-Col. G.G. Carpenter, 1st Battalion, Cambridgshre Regiment, 18th Division.
