Gordon Raynor
Service number
4978133
Military unit
1/5th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
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Date of birth
Date of death
29 May 1945 (26 years old)
Place of birth
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Family history
He was the son of Percy Raynor, and of A Raynor, of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.
Military history
KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY 6. F. 2. Thailand
On May 29th, 1945, the original 1/5th (Derbyshire) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters no longer existed as an active combat unit, as the surviving men were held as Prisoners of War (POWs) in Japanese captivity following the fall of Singapore in 1942. On this specific date, many of its soldiers were enduring brutal forced labor or dying from disease and starvation along the notorious Burma-Siam Death Railway.
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