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{{Personnel
|id=1351
|Surname and forenames=Sewell John
|Army number=4456566
|Rank=Private.
|Decorations=None known except for Service Awards - including 1939-45 Star awarded after his release from captivity.
|Date of birth=Born 11/12/1919.
|Age=(At the time of his death).  Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry 28/6/1939.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Called to the colours 1/9/1939 and posted to the 12th Battalion.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France - disembarked there 24/4/1940.  Posted missing 21/5/1940.  Taken Prisoner of War in the vicinity of Ficheux - 22/5/1940.  Confirmation that he was a PoW received 18/6/1940.  Reported as being in Allied hands at Odessa.  Returned to the UK 30/3/1945 and posted to Y List PoW.  Permanently attached from the Y List 22/5/1945 and posted to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - 11th Battalion.  Medically downgraded to B1 23/5/1945.  To be retained in the UK for six months from 30/3/1945.  Struck off the strength of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 6/6/1945 and permanently attached to (unreadable unit).  Posted to Non Self Supporting Unit M & T Camps 23/6/1945.  Struck off strength 2/3/1946.  Posted to Y List 3/3/1946 proceeding to Release.  Relegated to Class Z Army Reserve 25/6/46.  Demobilised.
|Company/Battery=D Company.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Wounded=Not yet known - though this is possible at the time of his captivity.
|Prisoner of War=Yes.  Held in Stalag XXA.  PoW Number 7059.
|Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
|Home address=38, Second St. Gateshead.  Single man.  Worked as a Gardener.  Father listed on War Office Records as John Shaw of 38, Second Street, Gateshead.
|Source table=1TS
}}