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|Surname and forenames=Cook John Richard
|Army number=4273814
|Rank=Fusilier
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|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
|Age=24
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  DIED 30/4/1944 at Chungkai, Siam while a prisoner in Japanese hands.
|Company/Battery=W Company.
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|Wounded=
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 in Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED of Pellagra 30/4/1944.
|Home address=Mother lived at 33 Alexandria Road, Bedlington Colliery, Northumberland.  Buried initially in grave 1266N Chungkai.
}}