SOE Hatton, Walter John

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Hatton​

• FORENAME

Walter John​

• UNIT

Oriental Mission​

• RANK

Lieutenant​

• NUMBER

216424​

• DATE OF DEATH

16th June 1942​

• AGE

45​

• GRAVESITE

Rangoon Memorial,Myanmar Face 19​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit General List​

born 1897 Greenwich,London​

son of Thomas and Emma Marion Hatton​

Royal Army Medical Corps (Private) 1915-16​

Tank Corps until 1918 (Sergeant instructor)​

London to Shanghai 24.12.1920​

Shanghai Volunteers (Battalion Sergeant Major)​

Asiatic Petroleum Company​

SOE 1941​

commissioned Lieutenant 6.11.1941​

STS 101,Singapore (Oriental Mission)​

Lashio,Burma 1942​

died trying to escape from Burma to India (exhaustion and heart troubles)​