Name
Leonard Arthur Gray
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
24/03/1943
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Craftsman
1572489
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
8. K. 20.
Thailand
Headstone Inscription
REST IN PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial St. Mark’s Church Memorial, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in Hertfordshire and was resident in the county at the time he enlisted. He was a member of the Walsworth Road Baptist Church and was employed by the Tottenham and District Gas Company of Hitchin.
He joined up in June 1940 and was given Service Number 1572489 and left England in April 1941. He was taken as a Prisoner of War by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in February 1942 and died in captivity almost certainly from ill-treatment and disease whilst working on the notorious Thailand to Burma railway.
He is buried in Plot 8, Row K Grave 20 in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand and a private inscription on the headstone reads "Rest in peace".
He was the youngest son of Edwin and Alice Gray of 16A, Periwinkle Lane, Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, Herts Pictorial dated 20th November 1945
