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|Surname and forenames=Tonkinson Sidney
|Army number=4278917
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Not yet known.
|Age=28 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served Malaya.  DIED 9/6/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – location Tarsoa, Siam.
|Company/Battery=Z Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Yes – captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 9/6/1943 - cause of death Dysentery and Beri Beri.  Interred in Grave 132/1 Tarsoa.  Re-interred in grave 4.F.61. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
|Home address=Son of Robert Henry and Edith Tonkinson of 26, Southwick Road, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, County Durham.   
}}