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Brian Berey Parry killed in Sarawak by enemy action September 1942
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St Peter Birley
Herefordshire
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Brian Berey
Parry
1902
Birkenhead, Cheshire
1st September 1942
Executed by the Japanese marines at Long Nawang in the Dutch controlled East Indies along with many others including Dutch and European men, women and children fleeing the Japanese invasion of Sarawak. Few details remain but evidence was given by native citizerns about the execution of firstly the men, then the women and then the children
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Kembang Kuning Cemetery, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
Second World War
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General Manager Sarawak Oilfields
Brian worked as General Manager for the Sarawak Oilfield Ltd. Known as the Long Nawang Massacre.
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