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|Surname and forenames=McGregor Walter George
|Army number=4274018
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Research suggests June 1919, registered in Glendale, Northumberland.  Mother's maiden surname Jeffrey.  To be confirmed.
|Age=24 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 15/12/1943 at Kanchanaburi, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=Z Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore when the force was surrendered.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED of Dysentery and Beri Beri following weakness and starvation.  Buried initially in Grave 460, No. 2 Cemetery, Kanchanaburi.  Re-interred 11/1/1946 in Grave 2.C.51. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "WHO SACRIFICED AND GAVE HIS LIFE TO SAVE MANKIND FROM TYRANNY".
|Home address=Son of Walter and Isabella McGregor.  Husband of Dorothy Elsie McGregor who lived at Carr Farm, Pool Lane, Green Hammerton, North Yorkshire.  
}}