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|Surname and forenames=Cowen William Henry 
|Army number=4270931
|Rank=Fusilier
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|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
|Age=29
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  DIED 9/10/1943 at Chungkai, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=W Company.
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|Wounded=
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 9/10/1943 of Beri Beri and Amoebic dysentery.
|Home address=Father lived at 83, Clepham Street, Dunston on Tyne.  Buried by Reverend Thompson initially in grave 648N Chungkai.
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