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Also their beloved son
William Cornelious
Died a prisoner of war
12th September 1944. Aged 27
Re-united
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Church of the Holy Cross Sherston
Wiltshire
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William Cornelius
Saunders
31st March 1917
Sherston, Wiltshire
12th September 1944
Died when the Japanese ship Kachidoki Maru carrying British POWs who had worked on the Death Railway to Japan was torpedoed in the South China Sea
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Singapore Memorial, Singapore
Second World War
Lance Corporal
4th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment
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