Croxon George Eric Bray

Name: CROXON, GEORGE ERIC BRAY
Initials: G E B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment
Unit Text: 5th Bn
Age 24
Date of Death: 28/07/1943
Service No: 5827605
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Croxon, of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 55.
Cemetery: SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

FROM WAR MEMORIAL COTENHAM CAMBRIDGESHIRE
George Eric Bray CROXON Private, 5827605, 5th Battalion The Suffolk Regiment, taken Prisoner of War by the Japanese at the surrender of Singapore February 15 1941, transported to Thailand for the building of the notorious Thai/Burma railway October 1942, and died of cholera July 28 1943, age 25. Eldest son of Frederick and Maud Croxon of Rooks Street. Before joining the forces he was employed by Horace Simpkins, Market Gardener, Cottenham. Commemorated on the Singapore Memorial, Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore. Column 55.

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