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Leading Aircraftman

Harry Ernest Hudgell

1185599

British

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2623

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

14 July 1945

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 2 Camp (British moved from this camp to the Number 1 Camp about the 15 April 1945. Survivors were then moved back to a wired section of Number 2 Camp on 29 May 1945)

Buried:

No known grave

Son of Henry William and Elizabeth Ann Hudgell; husband of Phyllis Mary Hudgell, of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire

Memorial

Column 453.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Details from

‘A Conspiracy of Silence’

Kranji Memorial

Singapore

Remembered with Honour

Harold (Harry) Ernest Hudgell

Son of

Henry William and Elizabeth Ann Hudgell

husband of Phyllis Mary Hudgell,

of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire

Leading Aircraftman - Royal Air Force

died 14 July 1945

Aged 33

Kranji Singapore

1939 - 1945

On the walls of this memorial are recorded the names of twenty four thousand soldiers and airmen of many races united in service to the British Crown who gave their lives in Malaya and neighbouring lands and seas and in the air over southern and eastern Asia and the pacific but to whom the fortune of war denied the customary rites accorded to their comrades in death.

THEY DIED FOR ALL FREE MEN.