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Major JAMES WILLIAM ARKELL

Service Number: IA/1219
Regiment & Unit/Ship

5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 August 1946

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JAKARTA WAR CEMETERY

5. G. 7.

Indonesia

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  • Country of Service Indian
  • Awards Military Cross and Bar
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Noel Arkell and Olive Arscott Arkell, of Highworth, Wiltshire.
  • Personal Inscription "A CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND"
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Buried or commemorated at

JAKARTA WAR CEMETERY
Indonesia
Number of casualties: 1181
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