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|Surname and forenames=Falcus Joseph Alfred
|Army number=2818461
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Research suggests birth registered Q2 1910, Sunderland.
|Age=32 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders - dates not yet known.  Transferred to, or re-enlisted in, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - dates not yet known.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED of WOUNDS at Singapore 15/3/1942.
|Company/Battery=Z Company
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Yes, in action in Singapore on 15/2/1942.
|Prisoner of War=Yes, captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore when the force was surrendered.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED OF WOUNDS 15/3/1942.  Buried initially at Changi PoW Cemetery, Singapore.  Re-interred (possibly early 1946) in Grave 8.E.3. Kranji War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER".
|Home address=Son of Alfred Ernest and Mary Charlotte Falcus of Sunderland.  Husband of Margaret Elty Grace Falcus of Roker, Sunderland.  
}}