Buie James Wishart Bainbridge Lance Corporal 7662455
Personnel Entry
Name Buie James Wishart Bainbridge
Army number 7662455
Rank Lance Corporal
Decorations
Date of birth Date not yet known.
Age 24
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Army Pay Corps - dates not known. Re-enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. DIED as a prisoner in Japanese hands 11/6/1943.
Company/Battery X Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
Died/Killed in action DIED of dysentery at Tarsoa, Siam 11/6/1943.
Home address No family details available as yet. Father lived at 42, Norham Street, Glasgow. Buried initially in Tarsoa grave 133/1. Re-interred in grave 4.F.62 in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
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