FITCH Kenneth George

  • First Name(s):
    Kenneth 
    George 
  • Surname:
    FITCH
  • Service Number:
    VX44830
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Support Services
  • Corps:
    Australian Army Service Corps
  • Unit:
    4 Reserve Motor Transport Company
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    9th March 1945
  • Age At Death:
    33
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan, Australian Section E. B. 6.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Ernest William and Maud Elizabeth Fitch, of Northfield, Birmingham

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

FITCH Kenneth George Is Named On These Memorials

Kings Norton Boys School
Kings Norton Boys School WW2 Roll of Honour

Further Information About FITCH Kenneth George

Kenneth Fitch was born on 6th May 1911. He entered Form IIIb at Kings Norton Boys School on 9th September 1924 and left the school from Form IVa on 22nd July 1927.  His home address on the school records was given as “Maismore”, Woodland Road, Northfield.

Kenneth Fitch was born in Surrey, England.  He was captured by the Japanese and taken overland on 17th March 1943 to work first in Singapore followed by the Thailand end of the railway before being taken to Japan.  He was designated to work V Battalion, D Force and then Japan.  He died of Croup and pneumonia at F17B (Omuta) while a prisoner of the Japanese.  He was cremated and his ashes were buried in Yokohama War Cemetery.

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