Service Details
Name:
 ANDERSON
Given Name:
 GEORGE VICTOR
Initials:
 G V
Service No:
 1872454
Rank:
 Sapper
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Regiment:
 Royal Engineers
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Unit:
 35 Fortress Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1944-09-12
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Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 The Rakuyo Maru was part of Convoy HI-72 and transporting 1317 Australian and British prisoners of war (POWs) from Singapore, when it was torpedoed and sunk in the Luzon Strait by USS Sealion, on 12 September 1944. A total of 1159 POWs died as a result of the sinking
Additional
Information:
Son of George and Mary Stewart Anderson. Born Cape Town, South Africa
Commemoration
Country:
 Singapore
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Cemetery:
 SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 40.

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