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Flight Sergeant ROY METCALFE HERDMAN

Service Number: 1473480
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

357 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 07 September 1945

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

Spec. Mem. 6

Myanmar

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Hannah Herdman, of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription A MUCH LOVED SON AND BROTHER TAKEN TOO SOON
  • N.B. Please note that this casualty is also commemorated on the Singapore Memorial. However, recent research discovered that they were buried within the monastery grounds at Mewaing village, but as these graves cannot be maintained, the commission has now commemorated them by special memorial plaques in this cemetery.
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