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Major CHARLES ROBERT INGRAM BESLEY

Service Number: 37810
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 February 1942

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY

14. D. 12.

Singapore

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Member of the Order of the British Empire, Military Cross, Territorial Decoration
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Holland Besley and Edith Besley; husband of Kate Patricia Besley, of Caversham, Reading, Berkshire.
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Buried or commemorated at

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY
Singapore
Number of casualties: 4574
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