Robert Born
Service number
556276
Military unit
1st Bn Leicestershire Regiment
Address
9 Paxtons Court, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.
Date of birth
Date of death
12 Dec 1941 (22 years old)
Place of birth
London.
Employment, education or hobbies
Machinist Ransome & Marles Bearing Works
Pre war Army
- Family History
- Military history
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Family history
Son of Edward and Leah Born, of Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Military history
Enlisted 9/7/1937 into the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. Wounded Lydds Railway Station while on guard September 1938 whilst serving in Palestine. Was serving in the Leicestershire Regiment as at 1/9/1939. The 1st Battalion was a Regular Army battalion stationed in the Far East on the outbreak of the Second World War. The battalion fought the Imperial Japanese Army. Believed drowned while crossing the Sungei Kedah River near Jitra, Malaya to escape advancing Japanese forces after the defeat of the 11th Indian Division, 15th Indian Infantry Brigade at Jitra.
Extra information
Unknown
Photographs
Photo of Robert Born