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28 Pretoria Road

History of 28 Pretoria Road

1939

Henry John Runham, b 1869, plumber

Elizabeth, b 1870

Their son, Gordon Runham, Lance Corporal with the Cambridgeshire Regiment, was captured in Singapore by the Japanese. He died of TB at Tamarkan in Thailand, 12th Sept. 1943.

(For more information on the Cambridgeshire Regiment in WWII read ‘Battalion at War – Singapore 1942’ by Michael Moore, Gliddon Books 1988)

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  • Far East Prisoner of War
  • world war two

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