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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Fromson Thomas Milburn
|Army number=4274908
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Born March 1919 Newcastle upon Tyne - mother's maiden surname Ridley.
|Age=26 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 12/9/1944 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, at sea en route to Japan, when the transport in which he was being carried was sunk by an Allied Submarine.
|Company/Battery=Y 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 12/9/1944 - cause of death - drowning.  Commemorated on Column 46 of the Singapore Memorial as presumably Thomas' remains were unable to be recovered.  Probate granted 25/3/1946 to Cathrine Fromson, Thomas' widow.
|Home address=Son of Edward Fromson (1876 - 1943) and Catherine (Kate) Fromson (nee Ridley - 1868 to 1961).  Lived at 42, Henry Street, Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne. 
}}


To read a detailed article by the IWM  on the sinking of these Japanese transports, please click [https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-sinking-of-prisoner-of-war-transport-ships-in-the-far-east here].