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|Surname and forenames=Forster John Alexander
|Army number=4273913
|Rank=Corporal
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Birth registered in Berwick in 1921, mother's maiden surname Henderson.
|Age=21
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 7/9/1943 at Kanchanaburi, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=HQ Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=Corporal.
|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 of Dysentery, Beri Beri, malaria and debility 7/9/1943.  Buried initially in Grave 150 at Kanchanaburi Paper Mill by Reverend Davidson.  Re-interred 30/1/1946 in Grave 2.J.7. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "WE LONG FOR THE TOUCH OF A VANISHED HAND THE SOUND OF A VOICE THAT IS STILL".  Probate granted 15/7/1946 at Newcastle upon Tyne to Ethel Miller Forster, wife of John Alfred Forster.
|Home address=Son of John Alfred and Ethel Miller Forster of Berwick on Tweed.  John had lived at 10, Bankhill, Berwick on Tweed, with his family.  
}}