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Warrant Officer Class Ii WILLIAM JOHN MURKIN

Service Number: 1424554
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

135 (The Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 31 March 1942

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY

8. D. 16.

Singapore

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Fanny Murkin; husband of Bessie Winifred Murkin, of Cambridge.
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Buried or commemorated at

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY
Singapore
Number of casualties: 4574
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