GENGE, Thomas John Head
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Rank:
Corporal (Acting Sergeant)
Unit / Base:
'45 Commando RM'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
CH/X 4107
CH/X 108220
Born:
Monday, February 9, 1925
Died :
Wednesday, July 11, 1951
Died in service
Age:
26
Cemetery/Memorial:
Local Roll of Honour:
Acting Sergeant Thomas Genge died of natural causes at the British Military Hospital Kamunting. Buried at Batu Gajah; later exhumed, Cremated at Sek Keng Cheng Crematorium, Kuala Lumpur and ashes returned to the UK.
- 02.06.1942 enlisted Royal Marines aged 17 for Hostilities Only.
- Post war re-engaged Royal Marines service, new service number CH/X 4107.
- 1947 became the first man to make a particularly difficult climb on a Crag at Sennen which was then named after him as 'Genge's Groove' [more.....].
Sources
AFM ROH.
Malayan Emergency Commonwealth Deaths 1948-1960.
Register of British Armed Forces And Overseas Deaths And Burials
'Soldier an' Sailor too' published on Jun 4, 2015.
Malaya Historical group.
[Image] Paula Eyre, granddaughter.
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