10 December 2009

1456257 BSM John Bevington Moth, Royal Artillery

1456257 Battery Sergeant Major John Bevington Moth of the 21st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 10th December 1942. He was 38 years old, the son of Harry Francis and Margaret Moth, and the husband of Edith Charlotte Moth of New Malden in Surrey.

John Moth died as a prisoner of war in Japan and is one of 284 men commemorated on the Yokohama Cremation Memorial in that country.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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