Name
Gordon Benjamin Swan(*1)
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
27/02/1942
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Leading Aircraftman
559205
Royal Air Force
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
Column 417.
Singapore
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was the son of Gordon and Dorothy Swan.
His Service Number was 559205 and he was attached to 512 Air Ministry Experimental Station though in what capacity is unknown. He was based in Singapore but was missing over Indonesia whilst escaping from the invading Japanese Forces. Whether or not he was captured is uncertain, but the probability is that he died as a prisoner of the Japanese.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on Column 417 of the Singapore Memorial to the Missing.
Additional Information
*1 CWGC gives his name as Benjamin Gordon Swan, we list his names as it appears on the local memorials.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, ‘When you go Home’ by A. Lane
