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Military service
Age:
52
Rank:
Galley Boy
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
RMS Empress of Asia (Vancouver, British Columbia (135226)
Birth:
January 1, 1892
London, England
Death:
March 29, 1944
Jakarta, Indonesia
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
2. A. 9.
Additional information
On 5 February 1942, at 11 h am (local time), the Empress of Asia, sailing in convoy, was bombed by Japanese aircraft. The ship caught fire and the captain decided to head for a lighthouse and anchor there to await rescue. It was carrying 2,235 troops from Bombay, India. Casualties totalled 15 soldiers killed and one sailor, Elworthy, who died of his wounds on the 10th in Kranji, Singapore. Smallwood died on 29 March 1944 of beri beri as a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 228 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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