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Personnel Entry
Name Newton Sidney
Army number 6210474
Rank Fusilier
Decorations
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age 25
Unit Enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment - dates not known. Transferred to, or re-enlisted in, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served Malaya. DIED 12/9/1944 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, probably at sea while en route to Japan.
Company/Battery Not yet known.
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 12/9/1944.
Home address Son of Christopher Newton and of Margaret Newton of Harton, South Shields, County Durham. Commemorated on Column 47 of the Singapore Memorial.
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