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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Egdell Thomas
|Army number=4278397
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
|Age=31 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served Malaya.  DIED 12/9/1944 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, at sea en route from Singapore to Japan, when the transport Rakuyo Maru was sunk by an Allied submarine.
|Company/Battery=W 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 12/9/1944 - cause of death - drowning.  Commemorated on Column 46 of the Singapore Memorial.
|Home address=Son of John and Susan Egdell.  Husband of Jean Egdell of Alnwick, Northumberland.  
}}


To read a detailed article by the IWM  on the sinking of these Japanese transports, please click [https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-sinking-of-prisoner-of-war-transport-ships-in-the-far-east here].