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28th February 1942On this day:
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Remembering those who died this day.
- Atchia A. H.M.. MR/368 (d.28th February 1942)
- Brown Walter Ernest. Gnr. (d.28th Feb 1942)
- Clayton Albert Edward. Pte. (d.28th Feb 1942)
- Viner Laurence William. Rflmn. (d.28th Feb 1942)
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Stories from 28th February 1942
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Gnr. Walter Ernest Brown. VC, DCM. Royal Australian Army, 2/15 Field Regiment. Royal Australian Artillery. (d.28th Feb 1942) Walter Brown died on 28th of February 1942 aged 55, he is commemorated on the Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore. He was the son of Francis Samuel and Agnes Brown, husband of Maude Brown, of Carlton, New South Wales, Australia. He had also served in the Grear War and was awarded the Victoria Cross.
The citation in the London Gazette for 16th August, 1918, gives the following details:-
"The company to which Corporal Brown was attached carried out during the night a minor operation, capturing a small system of enemy trenches. Early the next morning the occupants of the newly captured trench were persistently sniped at from an enemy strong-point about 70 yards away. Corporal Brown, on his own initiative made a dash towards that post, which he reached in spite of machine-gun fire. Threatening the occupants with a Mills grenade, he induced them all to come out, and, through further machine-gun fire, brought back prisoner one officer and eleven other ranks." s flynn
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Rflmn. Laurence William Viner. British Army, 1st Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). (d.28th Feb 1942) Lawrence Viner was the son of Harriett Anne (Catherine or Kit) Adcock nee Viner. He enlisted on 13th November 1935 in London with the 1st Btn. Scottish Rifles. They were sent into Burma on 12th of February 1942 following the Japanese invasion of the country. Lawrence took his own life in Burma while the balance of his mind was disturbed.
John Cyril Tomalin
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MR/368 A. H.M. Atchia. British Army, Royal Mauritius Regiment. (d.28th February 1942) Corporal Atchia was buried in the Diego Garcia (Pointe Marianne) Cemetery in the British Indian Ocean Territory.S Flynn
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Pte. Albert Edward Clayton. British Army, 8th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment. (d.28th Feb 1942) My Great Uncle Albert Clayton enlisted into the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment before the outbreak of the war.
When war broke out he joined the 8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was sent to France as part of the Expeditionary Force.
He was captured at Dunkirk and spent the next 2 years in a POW camp in Poland.
I think it may have been Stalag XXA at Torun, but this has not yet been confirmed.
He died of TB on 28th of February 1942 and is buried at Malborg Cemetery in Poland.
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