WALTER ERNEST SCRIVENER

Born: 1921, Ipswich.

Died: 13th July 1943; age: 22; died of Cholera as a Japanese PoW.

Residence: 5, Great Wingfield Street, Ipswich.

Date of Capture: 15th February 1942 – Fall of Singapore.

 

Rank: Private; Service Number: 6344548.

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 5th Battalion – Infantry.

 

Body cremated – Final resting place unknown.

Memorial Reference:

Column 56.

Singapore Memorial,

Kranji,

Singapore.

 

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Mr & Mrs W. B. Scrivener, of Ipswich.

 

Father: Walter Bertie Scrivener, born October 1884, Ipswich. A steam roller attendant.

Mother: Maud Scrivener (nee Cudmore), born April 1885, Ipswich.

 

Probate to Maud Scrivener – mother.

 

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