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Pte. William Harold Walter Arlitz
British Army 2nd Btn. East Surrey Regiment
from:Camberwell, London
(d.21st Sep 1944)
Willie Arlitz died as a POW while on the Hofuku Maru Ship. It was bombed and sunk by the US Army who didn't realise it was full of English POW's.