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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Nixon Robert
|Army number=4273278
|Rank=Corporal
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Not yet known.
|Age=37 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served Malaya.  DIED 30/10/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese - location Tambaya (possibly Tanbyazat).
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=Corporal.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Yes – captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 30/10/1943 - cause of death Dysentery, Beri Beri and Malnutrition.  Interred in Tambaya Cemetery 9.    Re-interred January 1946 in Grave B6.5.9. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "TILL MEMORY FADES AND LIFE DEPARTS HE WILL LIVE FOR EVER IN OUR HEARTS".
|Home address=Son of John and Mary Nixon of Alnwick, Northumberland.  Husband of Mary Josephine Nixon of Alnwick.    
}}