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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Elliot Richard Douglas
|Army number=4273911
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Not yet known, but probably 1917.
|Age=26
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 6/6/1943 at Tarsoa, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=X 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 Dysentery 6/6/1943.  Buried initially in Grave 128/i by Reverend Alcock at Tarsoa.  Re-interred 1/3/1946 in Grave 4.F.59. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
|Home address=Son of Robert and Margaret Elliot of Berwick on Tweed.  Father lived at Castle Gardens, Norham on Tweed.  
}}