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Revision as of 11:24, 19 August 2016
Personnel Entry
Name Humpish John
Army number 4264905
Rank Corporal
Decorations
Date of birth Date not yet known.
Age 34
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served Malaya. DIED 15/6/1942 at Changi, Singapore, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
Company/Battery Y 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 15/6/1962 from a perforated gastric ulcer.
Home address Son of William Humpish and Isabella Humpish (nee Crozier). Husband of Doris Humpish, who lived at 12 Creswell Street, Byker (CWGC show Bellingham, County Durham). Details of initial interment not known. Re-interred in grave 9.C.9. Kranji War Cemetery.
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