Mission: Captured while serving with R.A.F. in Singapore. (February 1942)

Date: 29th December 1942.

Unit: Unknown. Serving with R.A.F. in Singapore, later P.O.W. in japan.

Location: Tokyo Japan.

REASON FOR LOSS:

F/Lt. Simon John Dyke Acland was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in February 1942, he was one of thousands transported to Japan. He died in Tokyo, Japan, from pneumonia, while a prisoner of war on the 29th December 1942, aged 26.

F/Lt. Simon John Dyke Acland was born on 20 September 1916. He was the son of Capt Hubert Edward Peter Dyke Acland and Dorothy Marion Thorold. He is buried at the Yokohama War Cemetery, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Plot Brit. Sec. P. A. 14.

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