DUDLEY, Kenneth Woodrutt

Kenneth born in Newport on the 7th of September 1916 to Frederick & Ethel of ‘Woodleigh’ Castle Road Newport. He married Florence Mary TAYLOR, who was living at "Torwood", Priory Road, Carisbrooke around the time of Kenneth’s death. They were married in 1940 at St. Mary’s Church, Carisbrooke.

Kenneth was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in 1942. Aged 28, he died as a Prisoner of War at Kuching Camp, Borneo on the 22nd July 1945. Originally buried by other prisoners at Lingtang Camp Cemetery, Kenneth’s body was exhumed & reburied, with honours, at the Labuan War Cemetery in Malaysia on the 3rd September 1946, beneath a Commission Pedestal Marker, alongside 1,791 of his comrades.

Kenneth is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.