3527464 Pte Frank Jay, 1st Bn, Manchester Regt

Nine hundred and seventy British Army officers and men died on this single day in 1944; a heavy toll and approximately three times the number of British soldiers killed to date in Afghanistan in the last nine years.

3527464 Private Frank Jay of the 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment, lost his life on the 21st September 1944, almost certainly whilst a prisoner of war of the Japanese. He was 29 years old, the son of Jane A Jay of Rochdale, Lancashire. He is buried in Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

3534658 Pte Willard F Dunham, 1st Bn, Manchester Regt

3534658 Private Willard Fred Dunham of the 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment, died on the 8th September 1943. He was 27 years old and was from Manchester. He is buried in Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery which implies he died as a prisoner of war of the Japanese.

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

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Maj Vivian Alexander Chiodetti, 2nd Bn, Manchester Regt

Major Vivian Alexander Chiodetti of the 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment, but attached to the 3rd Burma Rifles, died on the 17th January 1942 whilst on active service in Burma. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial in the Taukkyan War Cemetery in Rangoon.

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