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|Surname and forenames=Holleywell James
|Army number=4273556
|Rank=Fusilier
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|Date of birth=Research indicates birth registered Q4 1904, Newcastle upon Tyne.
|Age=35 (? 38)
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served Malaya.  DIED 5/7/1943 at Tochan South, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=HO Company.
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|Wounded=
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED of Dysentery 5/7/1943.
|Home address=Grandson of Mr and Mrs John Thomas Holleywell of Alnwick, Northumberland.  Wife (not yet identified) lived in St George's Crescent, Alnwick.  Buried initially in grave 12, probably at Tonchan South, by Captain J Collins 2/18th Garwhal Rifles.  Re-interred in grave 8.B.43. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
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James Holleywell, died of disease in 1943 appears to be the brother of Edward Holleywell, killed in action in Northern France 1940.  They have adjacent Regimental Numbers and clearly joined up together.