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|Surname and forenames=Crampton Kenneth George
|Army number=4276776
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=23/5/1914.
|Age=29 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 Chungkai, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=Y 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 when the force was surrendered.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 15/12/1943 of Amoebic dysentery.  Buried initially in grave 1038N, Chungkai.  Re-interred in grave 3.L.5. Chungkai War Cemetery.  No headstone inscription.  Probate granted to widow, Mary Louisa Crampton, 4/2/1946, Newcastle upon Tyne.
|Home address=Father - Alfred R Crampton, mother - Isabella Crampton.  Worked as a motor driver.  Married Mary L Armstrong Q2 1940, Newcastle upon Tyne.  Lived at Belle Villa, Ponteland, Newcastle upon Tyne.  Wife lived at 2, Pine Street, Fawdon.  
}}