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Supt. John Beaufoy James Birch
Federated Malay States Police
from:Queensland, Australia
(d.2nd Jan 1942)
Superintendent Birch was the Son of Charles Wickham Male Birch and Margaret Katharine Birch; husband of Rose Marion Birch, of Cleveland, Queensland, Australia.
John Beaufoy James Birch was born in January 1905 at Nikko, Japan. He died on January 2, 1942 at age 37. His family lists the cause of death as: ambushed and killed by Japanese Army.
He is buried in the Telok Anson Catholic Cemetery in Malaysia.