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|Surname and forenames=De Roux Manley Ernest
|Army number=4277111
|Rank=Lance Sergeant
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=8/5/1905, Clarendon, Jamaica.
|Age=40 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 8/9/1945 having been a prisoner of the Japanese.  Repatriation process underway.  Declared MISSING in an aircraft lost en route between Bangkok and Rangoon.
|Company/Battery=W Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=Lance Sergeant.
|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 8/9/1945 - cause of death - fatal air accident - remains apparently unable to be recovered.  Commemorated on Column 45 of the Singapore Memorial.
|Home address=Son of Storks McMahon De Roux (1865 - 1949) and Imogene Victoria Lindo De Roux (1865 - 1920) of May Pen, Jamaica.  Traced to an incoming passenger list from Kingston Jamaica to Avonmouth, Bristol in 1934 - returned to Kingston in September 1934.  Spouse Olive May Alexandra Rennalls.  Children born in 1938 and 1940 (twins).  Mrs L B Lyon, Claremont House, Claremont, St Anne, Jamaica SW1 (relationship to Manley not known).
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