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Deck Boy JAMES JOSEPH TOWERS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Merchant Navy

S.S. Empress of Asia

Date of Death

Died 13 June 1943

Buried or commemorated at

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY

8. E. 24.

Thailand

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Elizabeth Towers, of Liverpool.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF A DEAR SON, WHO DIED A PRISONER OF WAR. MOTHER, FATHER & FAMILY

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Buried or commemorated at

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
Thailand
Number of casualties: 6982
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