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Private Cyril Burch of the 1/5th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters

Far East

450 Sherwood Foresters died as a result of being held captive by the Japanese.ConvoyHI-72 sailed from Singapore for Japan on 4th September 1944. Two of the ships carrying British and American prisoners of war were attacked by US submarines; both ships were hit and sunk. The Foresters lost 95 men in the sinking. Private Cyril Burch enlisted 15 July 1939 into the 5th Battalion. He was declared missing at sea and his parents donated this postcard to the Sherwood Foresters Museum

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