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The CWGC record Private Owen Meenan as the son of Bernard and Annie Meenan. He is also listed as the husband of Frances Olive Meenan of Droylsden, Lancashire |
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Private Owen Meenan is also commemorated on the World War Two Memorial at Egerton Lodge in Melton Mowbray. |
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Private Owen Meenan is commemorated locally on Clogher War Memorial. |
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Private Owen Meenan has no known grave and is commemorated on Column 66 of the Singapore Memorial, which stands in Kranji War Cemetery. |
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Private Owen Meenan died during the defence of Singapore at the Battle of Kampar on 12th February 1942. |
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In February 1942, Private Owen Meenan was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment in Singapore. |
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In 1939 he married Frances Olive Dawson at Melton Mowbray. Together they had one son, Bernard Owen Meenan, born in 1941 in Melton Mowbray. |
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Owen Meenan was the son of Bernard and Annie Meenan. He was born in 1906 in County Tyrone. No confirmation of this can be found in GRONI or the Census. |