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Brigadier ROBERT GUY LODER-SYMONDS

Service Number: 56606
Regiment & Unit/Ship

General Staff

Commands and Staff

Date of Death

Died 11 November 1945

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JAKARTA WAR CEMETERY

5. F. 2.

Indonesia

Jakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia - photos from Vice Chairman Lieut Gen Sir A S H Irwin's tour to the far east, Jan 2013

Photographer: Lieut Gen Sir Alistair Irwin KCB CBE (Vice Chairman)

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and Royal Artillery
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order and Bar, Military Cross, Twice Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Freedom Cross (Norway) & Distinguished Service Cross (U.S.A.). Son of Capt. Robert Francis Loder-Symonds, formerly The Cheshire Regt. and of Agnes Muriel Loder-Symonds; husband of Merlin A. Loder-Symonds, of Hindon, Wiltshire.
  • Personal Inscription "HE, BEING MADE PERFECT IN A SHORT TIME, FULFILLED A LONG TIME"
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Buried or commemorated at

JAKARTA WAR CEMETERY
Indonesia
Number of casualties: 1181
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