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Revision as of 08:39, 9 June 2018
Personnel Entry
Name Wait Thomas
Army number 4273895
Rank Fusilier
Decorations None known.
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age 27 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served Malaya. DIED 28/5/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – location Kanchanaburi, Siam.
Company/Battery Z Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Not yet known.
Joined Brigade
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not so far as is known.
Prisoner of War Yes – captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
Died/Killed in action DIED 28/5/1943 - cause of death Dysentery. Interred in Grave 11, Kanchanaburi. Re-interred in grave 2.F.6. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
Home address Father lived at Gallowgate Cottages, Norham on Tweed, Northumberland.
Source table
Fusilier Thomas Wait - commemorated on this page - was the brother of Fusilier William Wait, who was declared MISSING and subsequently presumed KILLED in ACTION on 15/2/1942. This, sadly, is a feature of local Territorial Battalions where brothers and cousins often joined together. The two brothers' Regimental Numbers are only two digits apart.
