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|Surname and forenames=Johnston Thomas Purves
|Army number=4274179
|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 19/7/1943 (CWGC has 18/7/1943) at Non Pladuk, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=Z Company.
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|Wounded=
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED from Myocardiac nephritis 18/7/1943 (Regimental Orders show 19/7/1943).
|Home address=Son of Thomas Purves Johnston and Helen Smith Johnston of Berwick on Tweed.  Father lived at Palace Green, Berwick on Tweed.  Buried initially by Reverend C Ross, Chaplain to the Forces.  Re-interred in grave 4.G.1. Chungkai War Cemetery.
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