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Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Private George Albert Larkin.   Born about 1898 in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, the son of George Albert and Mary Teresa Larkin née Kelly. His father was an Army Pensioner and a Tramway Motorman working for Colchester Corporation. On the 1911 census he is shown living with his parents, three older and two younger sisters and three younger brothers at 8 West Street, Colchester, Essex. In October 1936 he was appointed as a Postman in the London Postal Service. He joined the 4^th Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, service number 5781189, and it was as a Japanese prisoner of war that he died on the 8^th October 1943, aged 45 years and is buried in Grave B6.O.11. in the Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, near the notorious Burma/Thailand Railway in Burma. His will showed that he lived at 56 Bergholt Road, Colchester, Essex and that his effects totalled £410-15s-9d and were left to be administered by his sister Beatrice Sarah Burns.

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