Acting Sergeant Thomas Genge died of natural causes at the British Military Hospital Kamunting. Buried at Batu Gajah; later exhumed, Cremated at Sek Keng Cheng Crematorium, Kuala Lumpur and ashes returned to the UK.
02.06.1942 enlisted Royal Marines aged 17 for Hostilities Only, CH/X 108220.
Post war re-engaged Royal Marines service, new service number CH/X 4107.
1947 became the first man to make a particularly difficult climb on a Crag at Sennen which was then named after him as 'Genge's Groove'.
Thomas John Head Genge
b. 09.02.1925
d. 11.07.1951
Aged 26.