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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Dirom Gavin
|Army number=4271470
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Birth registered Q1, 1921, Glendale, Northumberland.
|Age=22
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 23/11/1943 at Chungkai, 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 23/11/1943 of Malaria and Amoebic Dysentery.  Buried initially in grave 930N at Chungkai.  Re-interred in grave 6.C.2. Chungkai War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "SWEET ARE THE MEMORIES, SILENTLY KEPT, OF A SON WE LOVED AND CAN NEVER FORGET".  Probate granted to mother, 22/11/1945.
|Home address=Son of Andrew and Mary Isabella Dirom of Morpeth, Northumberland.  Mother lived at High Common Farm, Morpeth, Northumberland.  
}}


A photograph of Gavin's headstone can be seen on the Ancestry.co.uk Website at  [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/29429165/person/12189751093/media/97b8d606-cf0c-47c9-b77e-60441083b32c?_phsrc=3e31440524&_phstart=successSource]