Acting Sergeant Thomas John Head Genge

Photo courtesy of his granddaughter Paula Eyre.

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.