Service Details
Name:
BURNETT
Given Name:
JOSEPH DUTHIE
Initials:
J D
Service No:
178737
Rank:
Captain
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Regiment:
Royal Army Service Corps
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Date of Death:
1943-06-24
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Age:
31
Cause of Death:
Died whilst a POW
Additional
Information:
Son of George Burnett and of Margaret Rose Burnett (nee Duthie), of Clifton Road, Aberdeen; born Johannesburg, 1912 ; educated at Robert Gordon's College. In 1934 he graduated M.A. with Honours in Classics and later took the degree of LL.B., becoming an assistant with J. M. Clapperton, advocate, Aberdeen. He joined the Royal Army Service Corps, and after obtaining his commission was sent to Singapore. On the fall of this city he was taken prisoner by the Japanese and held in a camp there till February 1943, when he was transferred to another camp in Thailand. He died there in June of the same year.
Commemoration
Country:
Myanmar
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Cemetery:
THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
B4. M. 13.

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