LANDER Ray
Sergeant, No. 1 Commando, 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment. Died 31/01/1945. Age 25.
Buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar. Remembered on St Luke’s War Memorial and on a family grave in Histon Road Cemetery.
Lived with his wife in Gwydir Street, Cambridge.
March 2009 Location E4.44
Memorial inscription at E4.44: Headstone, with curb and vase. IN LOVING / MEMORY OF A DEVOTED HUSBAND & FATHER / ALBERT LANDER / ENTERED INTO REST MARCH 1 1940 AGED 65 / ALWAYS REMEMBERED / ALSO OF SGT. RAY LANDER NO. 1 COMMANDO / KILLED IN ACTION JANRY 1945 AGED 25 YEARS / BENEATH A HILL IN BURMA / WHERE OUR DEAREST LOVED ONE LIES / HE FOUGHT THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM / AND FOR OUR SAKE HE DIES / ALSO FONDEST MEMORIES OF A DEAR MOTHER / AND GRANDMOTHER / EMMA LANDER / ENTERED INTO REST OCTOBER 6TH 1963 / AGED 83 YEARS / REST IN PEACE.