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245150Capt. Robert Watson
British Army 9th Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiiers
from:Muker, Swaledale, N Yorks
(d.15th February 1942)
Captain Robert Watson of the 9th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers is buried in Kanji Cemetery in Singapore. However, we have discovered, through records kept by my wife's father, Capt Eric Cordingly, a padre with the 9th RNF, that Captain Watson was initially buried on 16th of February 1942 in the garden of a house in Singapore where he was killed on 15th of February 1942, the day of the British surrender. He was buried by Lt Addy of the 9th Battalion in the garden of 159 Mount Pleasant Road, where he was presumably killed. The 9th had positions along that road.He was re-interred in 1945 in Kanji. Padre Cordingly went out after the surrender with a medical officer and burial party to bury the British dead and recorded Capt Watson's burial place in the garden which was marked with a cross and was labelled. The padre filed a burial form which contains this information. We have the original burial form and photos of the likely burial spot taken when we went there in 2015 and would like to tell his relatives of our findings.
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