Charles Edward Saxby

Enlisted 25/3/1938 and was serving in the Leicestershire Regiment as of 1/9/1939. The 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment and 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment suffered heavy losses in North Malaya after the Japanese attack in December 1941 and the two battalions were amalgamated on 20th December 1941 as the ‘British Battalion under the command of Lieut. Col. C.E. Morrison, D.S.O., M.C. of The Royal Leicestershire Regiment. They fought as such till Malaya and Singapore fell to the Japanese on the 15th February 1942. Died from wounds during the Battle of Kampar, was also suffering from Typhoid.

Son of Charles Edward and Hannah Mary Saxby, of Farndon Ferry, Nottinghamshire, their 3rd son to be killed (one an adopted nephew) within 18 months. The last of their 4 children to die, their daughter died as an infant.