Identity
Person No.
3075
Service No.
178737
Last Name
First Name
Joseph Duthie
Initials
J D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
31
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
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Locality
Unknown
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Additional Information
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Son of George Burnett and of Margaret Rose Burnett (nee Duthie), of Clifton Road, Aberdeen; born Johannesburg, 1912 ; educated at Robert Gordon's College. In 1934 he graduated M.A. with Honours in Classics and later took the degree of LL.B., becoming an assistant with J. M. Clapperton, advocate, Aberdeen. He joined the Royal Army Service Corps, and after obtaining his commission was sent to Singapore. On the fall of this city he was taken prisoner by the Japanese and held in a camp there till February 1943, when he was transferred to another camp in Thailand. He died there in June of the same year.
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South African War Graves Project