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|Surname and forenames=Douglas Wilfred
|Army number=4273547
|Rank=Fusilier
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|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
|Age=22
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served Malaya.  DIED 11/8/1943 at Sunkrae on the Siam border whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=Y Company.
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|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 11/8/1943 of Dysentery.
|Home address=Son of Ormund and Isabella Douglas of Amble, Northumberland.  Buried initially in grave 5, block A, row 3, No.2 Cemetery - Sunkrae.  Re-interred in grave B3.E.8. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.
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