Jarrett Geoffrey Alwyn Fusilier 5949191

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Name Jarrett Geoffrey Alwyn
Army number 5949191
Rank Fusilier
Decorations
Date of birth Date not yet known.
Age 25
Unit Enlisted in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment - dates not known. Transferred to, or re-enlisted in, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served Malaya. DIED 16/8/1943 at Kinsiok, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
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 from Cholera and myocardiac degeneration 16/8/1943.
Home address No family information available other than that a friend - Miss P Chanley - lived at 1 St Aubens Road, The Haugh, Bolton. Buried initially by Lt A C Addy of the Battalion. Re-interred in collective grave 6. G. 1-67. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
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