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|Surname and forenames=Chisholm Thomas William (Regimental Orders show initials as TEW).
|Army number=4273974
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Birth registered Q3, 1920, Glendale, Northumberland.  Mother's maiden surname Lindsay.
|Age=23 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 1/12/1943 at Kanchanaburi, Siam, whilst a prisoner in Japanese hands.
|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 1/12/1943 - cause of death - Beri Beri.  Buried initially in grave C6 at the Base Hospital Cemetery, Kanchanaburi.  Re-interred 7/1/1946 in Grave 2.A.33. in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  No headstone inscription.
|Home address=No family details given, other than that his father lived at Fenwick Steads, Belford.  
}}