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|Surname and forenames=Emerson James Arthur
|Army number=4274806
|Rank=Fusilier
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|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
|Age=25
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  DIED 5/11/1943 at Tarsoa, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=X Company.
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|Wounded=
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 5/11/1943 of Dysentery and bronchial pneumonia.
|Home address=Husband of Ethel M Emerson who lived at 14, High Street, Newburn on Tyne.  Buried initially in grave 374/2 at Tarsoa.  Re-interred in grave 4.C.71. Kanchanaburi War cemetery.
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