Owen Gilbert Newman (2009982) served as a Sapper with the 288 Field Company of the Royal Engineers during the Second World War.
Sadly he was taken Prisoner of War by the Japanese and joined 900 other British troops onboard the Kachidoki Maru ship, heading to Japan.
The ship was torpedoed and sunk by USS Pampanito, just North East of Hainan Island, near China on 12th September 1944.
400 British soldiers were on-board and subsequently lost their lives.
