Knight William Douglas Fusilier 4273514
From 70 Brigade
Personnel Entry
Name Knight William Douglas
Army number 4273514
Rank Fusilier
Decorations
Date of birth Date not yet known.
Age 25
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served Malaya. DIED 27/8/1943 at Chungkai, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
Company/Battery Z 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 Amoebic hepatitis 27/8/1943.
Home address No family information available, other than that mother lived at Garden Cottage, Settrington. Buried initially in grave 300N at Chungkai. Re-interred in grave 5.J.4. in Chungkai War Cemetery.
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