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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Dunbar Alan
|Army number=4273273
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Birth registered Alnwick, Northumberland, Q2 1915, mother's maiden surname Johnson.
|Age=28
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 24/8/1943 at Chungkai, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=HQ 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 of Beri Beri and Malnutrition 24/8/1943. Buried initially in Grave 291N at Chungkai by Reverend Thompson.  Re-interred in Grave 5.K.5. Chungkai War Cemetery - exact date not yet known.  No family details or inscription on his headstone.
|Home address=Son of James and Mary Jane Dunbar of Alnmouth, Northumberland.  Brother lived at Bilton, Alnmouth.  
}}