On 5th June, we remember service personnel with connections to Northern Ireland who died in far-off fields such as Burma, Singapore, Indonesia, and India.
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Private Leslie Ivan Frederick Collins of Larne, Co. Antrim served in 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment which was based in India in the Second World War.
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Corporal William John Jess of Woodvale, Belfast served in the Royal Air Force and became a prisoner of war in Indonesia following the fall of Singapore in 1942.