5774056 Lance Corporal

F. S. Girling

The Royal Norfolk Regiment

3rd September 1943 Age 31

 

At The Going Down Of The Sun

And In The Morning

We Will Remember Him

 

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Corporal 5774056    Royal Norfolk Regiment 5 Bn

Death 03/09/1943, Thailand-Burma railway.  aged 31

Kanchanaburi War cemetery Thailand.  Grave 2.E 72

Commemorated  on Foulsham War Memorial

 

Son of Charles, Stephen and Susana Girling of Foulsham Norfolk

Husband of Dolly Miriam Girling (nee Voutt) of Hindolveston Norfolk.

Fredrick and Dolly married in Oct/Nov/Dec.  1941.   Son; Barry birth date unknown.

 

The battalion embarked on the Duchess of Atholl (21,000 tons) on the 9th December 1941 and sailed for Halifax with the 18th Infantry Division convoy. Then to Singapore

 

Captured at Singapore  15th Feb  1942.

 

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/Regiments/Royal_Norfolk_Regiment/5th_Battalion/html/history.htm

 

Dolly remarried in June 1952 to Harrold Bland Alexander. They lived at 4 Fulmodestone Road Hindoveston until they died.

Son;  Andrew. DOB unknown

 

Harrold  born 16th Jan 1924 – 1998.

Dolly  born Apr/May/June 1914 – 2000.

 

Buried in Hindolveston (old church) churchyard.