Service Details
Name:
 LENTON
Given Name:
 RALPH PERCY
Initials:
 R P
Service No:
 214748
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 Royal Artillery
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Unit 2:
 attd. 301 Field Regt. East African Artillery
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Date of Death:
 1944-02-12
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Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Lost in S.S. Khedive Ismail (London). Sailing on 6 February 1944 from Kilindini Harbour at Mombasa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon in Convoy KR-8, the SS Khedive Ismail was attacked by a B1 type Japanese submarine. The Khedive Ismail was hit by two torpedoes. 1297 perished
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Lenton, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia; husband of Barbara Lenton, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
Commemoration
Country:
 Kenya
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Cemetery:
 EAST AFRICA MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 1.

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