Serjeant ALFRED CLAUDE BRENTON SOWDEN
Service Number: 841889
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Corps of Signals
Date of Death
Died 07 September 1945
Age 27 years old
- Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Force 136 Special Operations Executive
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Military Medal, Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Son of Alfred John and Mabel Gwendolene Sowden.
- Personal Inscription ALWAYS REMEMBERED BY MUM, DAD AND SISTER A CORNISH HERO WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR US
- N.B. Please note that this casualty is also commemorated on the Singapore Memorial. However, recent research discovered that they were buried within the monastery grounds at Mewaing village, but as these graves cannot be maintained, the commission has now commemorated them by special memorial plaques in this cemetery.
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