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|Surname and forenames=Ward John
|Army number=4278303
|Rank=Corporal
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|Date of birth=Not yet known.
|Age=32
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served Malaya.  DIED 23/12/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – location unknown.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
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|Wounded=
|Prisoner of War=Yes – captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 23/12/1943 - cause of death unknown.
|Home address=Son of John Joseph and Margaret Ward of Bardon Mill, Northumberland.  No details of initial interment.  Re-interred in grave 2.G.52. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
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