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Killed in Action
Cambridgeshire Regiment
2nd Battalion
History
Compiled by Ron Taylor
In Memory of David Langton
Thailand-Burma Railway
From Fred Taylor (Private 5776807)
Working parties had increased, and on the 18th June my turn came, I was now feeling a lot better but the food and conditions at Changi were very bleak, rice and green leaves were our diet, the water had to be boiled and the sanitary conditions were terrible, so I was glad to get away. With a party of 600 others under the command of Major P.D. Weir of the 118 Field Regiment, RA, and Major M.T. Read, 196 Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. both of the 18th Division. We were herded into cattle trucks and driven up Malaya and into Thailand.
Cattle trucks to Thailand
by Charles Thrale
After five days in those cattle trucks, which were very cold at night and stiflingly hot during the day, we were very grateful to arrive at Non Pladuk and were treated very well, the food was a lot better then at Changi. Our first job was to clear a large area of trees and put up our atapi shelters, we were told a Japanese workshop was to be built there, then word got around that it was to be the start of a railway line to go 415kms to Burma.
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Atapi Shelter
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Picture Supplied by Helen Elliott
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As the Jap engineers started to arrived a cook house was set up, Jimmy O'Conner was Divisional HQ cook and he asked me to volunteer with him to help the Jap cooks. We settled down to making manjou cakes for the Japs, we had to grind the rice into a kind of flour by hitting it with a mallet, soya beans were then given the same treatment, then water was added to the rice making a kind of dough, the soya beans were then added and the Japs ate these raw. Jimmy had the idea of baking them like we would buns, he talked the Japanese cook into trying this, and they were an immediate success. The Japanese cook's name was Otto, he took us under his wing making about 1,000 manjou cakes a day using Jimmy's recipe.
By October the now infamous Death Railway was under way and the guards now arriving were Koreans and Sikhs, they were a lot more sadistic then the Japs, being held under by the Japs for a long time, it was now their turn to serve out the punishment and this they did with gusto. A large bamboo cane was carried by the guards, this was nicknamed the 'bamboo interpreter', if they wanted to get the message across, you would feel it on the most sensitive parts of your body.
The railway tracks from Burma and Thailand were joined at Konkoita in October 1943.
The price paid 12,614 Allied deaths
Plus an estimated 80,000 Romusha (Native Labour) deaths.
Death Roll
Thailand-Burma Railway
Please click on the  next to each date below to extend information
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Date
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Name
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Service/No
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1942/12/14
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Sargent, Alec George
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5830993
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1942/12/29
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Hodges, John William
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5835501
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1943/01/01-1943/12/31
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Walker, Percy Edward
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5933498
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1943/01/12
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Madeley, John Norman
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5833836
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1943/01/21
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Wilson, Eric Owen
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90556
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1943/01/22
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Bremner, James
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5832489
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1943/01/22
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Marsh, Arthur
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5830661
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1943/02/07
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Hammond, Ronald
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5833579
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1943/02/13
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Hackett, James
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5833440
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1943/02/16
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Whiting, John William
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5831314
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1943/04/23
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Johnson, Edward
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6026945
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1943/05/11
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Robinson, Maurice Frederick
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5827865
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1943/05/13
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Stimpson, George Morris
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5933540
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1943/05/16
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Trotman, William Robert
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6013883
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1943/05/23
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Asplin, Charles Harry
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5832911
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1943/05/24
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Rackham, Tony George
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882215
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1943/05/25
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Hall, Horace
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5775555
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1943/05/26
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Francis, Russell Bernard
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5827947
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1943/05/26
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Youd, Frank William
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5933861
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1943/05/26
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Hawkins, Henry Gordon
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5933414
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1943/05/30
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Sinden, Charles Frank
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5933397
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1943/05/31
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Thorp, John Phillip
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5835298
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1943/06/01
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Seager, Stanley
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5826642
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1943/06/01
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Taylor, Walter
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6023246
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1943/06/01
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Manning, Bertie Albert
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5831017
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1943/06/01-1943/06/30
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Bensley, Bert
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5933894
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1943/06/02
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Carroll, Thomas
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13020076
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1943/06/03
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Smith, Ronald Archer
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5933574
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1943/06/03
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Morris, Alfred Bernard
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5828824
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1943/06/03
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Bensley, Charles Verdan
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5932918
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1943/06/04
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Smee, William John
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5835583
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1943/06/04
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Biley, Jack
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5831140
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1943/06/05
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Woodbridge, Albert James
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5825739
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1943/06/05
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Durrant, Reginald
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5825312
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1943/06/06
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McGlynn, John
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5833454
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1943/06/06
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Potter, Roy Anthony Haigh
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5829463
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1943/06/07
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Harrison, Charles Frederick
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5832634
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1943/06/09
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Luff, Aubrey
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5933084
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1943/06/09
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Sharpe, Harry Kilsby
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5933642
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1943/06/10
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Pluck, Arthur Douglas
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5830982
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1943/06/10
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Baker, George William
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5833216
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1943/06/10
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Rowell, Frederick
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5833109
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1943/06/11
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Crowson, Ronald
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5933738
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1943/06/13
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Fountain, Frederick
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5835493
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1943/06/15
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Rose, Carl
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5832781
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1943/06/16
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Byrne, Vincent
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5836289
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1943/06/17
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Hansford, Frederick Lewis Wilson
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6028675
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1943/06/18
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Baxter, George
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5833770
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1943/06/19
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James, John Thomas
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5831007
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1943/06/20
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Hart, Leslie John
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5829997
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1943/06/24
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Long, Herbert James
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5933546
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1943/06/24
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Block, Robert Stanley
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5831079
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1943/06/25
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Maidwell, Frank
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5833046
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1943/06/26
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Armstrong, Albert Edward
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5933891
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1943/06/27
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Mann, Jack
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5932170
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1943/06/29
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Young, Percy Norman
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5835588
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1943/06/29
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Smith, John James
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5933589
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1943/06/29
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Briars, Ronald Albert
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5833520
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1943/06/30
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Groom, Stanley William
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5828535
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1943/06/30
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Gardiner, John
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6028732
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1943/07/01
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Gray, Percy Cecil
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5833274
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1943/07/01
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Mason, Raymond Oswald
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5827729
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1943/07/01/1943/08/21
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Peck, Hermond Phillip
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5830461
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1943/07/05
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Green, Roland
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5933473
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1943/07/08
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Auker, Leslie Wilfred Thomas
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5832445
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1943/07/08
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Golder, Edward Frank
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5833933
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1943/07/08
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Palmer, George Edward
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5830242
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1943/07/13
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Carter, Alfred Roland
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5933760
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1943/07/15
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Bedford, Sidney
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5827413
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1943/07/16
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Dale, John Thomas
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5933042
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1943/07/18
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Baldwin, Roy Thomas
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5833680
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1943/07/18
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Pearl, George Robert
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5832745
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1943/07/18
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Rollings, Thomas Maurice
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5827561
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1943/07/24
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Wright, Frederick Charles
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5832873
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1943/07/24
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Lawson, Wilfred George
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5830973
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1943/07/27
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Nightingale, Charles Stanley
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5932828
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1943/07/28
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Sneesby, John Anthony
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5832811
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1943/07/28
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Jansen, Frederick Albert
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5831214
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1943/07/29
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Kerridge, Horace
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5933701
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1943/08/06
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Nicholls, Ernest William
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5933723
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1943/08/08
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Payne, Arthur
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5835527
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1943/08/10
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Blows, Albert Edward
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5830164
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1943/08/13
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Cox, Sidney Ronald
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5933512
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1943/08/15
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Brown, William Henry
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5933490
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1943/08/15
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Wentworth, William Frederick
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5827505
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1943/08/17
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Hart, Leslie Frank
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5832636
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1943/08/21
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Shelcott, Alfred George
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5831234
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1943/08/24
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Hammond, Victor Reginald
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5830380
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1943/08/25
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Britton, Arnold
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5933727
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1943/08/27
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Hornsby, Harry
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5833591
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1943/08/31
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Westwood, John James
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5835557
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1943/08/31
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Taylor, Norman William
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5933870
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1943/09/01
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Harvey, Victor Albert
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5827650
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1943/09/02
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Markham, George Alexander
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6018234
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1943/09/04
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Burkett, George Alfred
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5933705
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1943/09/05
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Fuller, Thomas
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5835494
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1943/09/07
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Tricker, Leslie
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5827794
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1943/09/09
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Howard, Leslie Thomas
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5832656
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1943/09/12
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Runham, Gordon Henry
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5933259
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1943/09/13
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King, Aubrey Frederick
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5833722
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1943/09/13
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Buckle, Harry James
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5831132
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1943/09/13
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Chapman, Percy Henry
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5933502
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1943/09/14
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Lord, William Thomas
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5830430
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1943/09/19
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Ginger, Stanley George
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5833931
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1943/09/22
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Sanders, Ivor Aubrey
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5827814
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1943/09/25
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Woodward, Roy
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5933769
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1943/09/27
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Pearson, Tom
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5933719
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1943/09/29
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Dunlop, James Gordon
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5933752
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1943/10/09
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Smith, James Gilbert
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6028627
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1943/10/11
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Gale, John Francis Nelson
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5831036
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1943/10/11
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Gregory, Alan Charles
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5827275
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1943/10/11
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Wilson, Bryan James
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5828771
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1943/10/12
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Jeffrey, Reginald George
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885427
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1943/10/16
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Hewitt, John Edward
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5823597
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1943/10/24
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Cox, Leslie George
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5932982
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1943/10/25
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Jugg, Harold William
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5933590
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1943/10/27
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Burrell, Walter Edward
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5933591
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1943/11/13
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Bland, John
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5826660
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1943/11/18
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Taylor, Reginald George
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5831244
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1943/11/24
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Hengest, Carl Frederick George
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6019218
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1943/11/30
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Camp, William David
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5835466
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1943/11/30
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Dannatt, Kenneth Edward
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5933677
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1943/12/05
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Wulbern, Stanley James
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5828774
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1943/12/09
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Woodard, Stanley Ernest
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5834842
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1943/12/10
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Piddock, Douglas
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13021488
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1943/12/18
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Jones, Edwin Horace
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5830963
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1943/12/20
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Frusher, Gerald
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5933737
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1944/01/06
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Sharpe, George Ernest
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5933633
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1944/01/07
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Smith, George
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5827627
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1944/02/19
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Dixon, Herbert Thomas
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5933669
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1944/02/27
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Brundish, Donald Eustace
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5829675
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1944/03/01
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Cudworth, Leslie Charles
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5827926
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1944/04/13
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Willis, Walter Reginald
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5833888
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1944/05/01-1944/05/30
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Rasbary, Alfred George
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5833637
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1944/06/03
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Foskett, Ernest
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5832590
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1944/08/08
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Dawson, Richard Adrian
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5833426
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1944/08/23
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Dudman, Herbert
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6028783
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1944/08/23
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Fulbrook, Edwin James
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5830195
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1944/09/26
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Cone, Percy
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5932493
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1944/12/02
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Roberts, Alfred George Sidney
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5833462
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1944/12/12
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Page, George Thomas
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6914090
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1944/12/27
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Sheldrick, Wilfred Edwin
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5828785
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1945/01/09
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Marsh, Charles Frederick
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5831018
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1945/02/03
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Sells, James Simion
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5932331
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1945/02/03
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Howe, George Alexander
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5831282
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1945/04/16
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Summers, William Charles
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5831305
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1945/05/15
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Mason, Felix Oswald Sidney
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5775495
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1945/05/27
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Rutterford, Henry Victor
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5933505
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1945/07/23
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Harlock, Thomas
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5833580
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1945/07/31
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Daniel, Frank Lewis
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5828832
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