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|Surname and forenames=Grundy Harry
|Army number=4127724
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=24/2/1919.
|Age=24
|Unit=Enlisted in the Cheshire Regiment - dates not known.  Transferred to, or re-enlisted in, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 29/10/1943 (CWGC shows 28/10/1943) at Chungkai, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=W 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 of Avitaminosis and malnutrition 28/10/1943 (Regimental Orders show 29/10/1943).  Buried initially in Grave 792N at Chungkai by Reverend Thompson.  Re-interred in Grave 6.N.14. Chungkai War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "SAFE IN GOD'S KEEPING. IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER".  Probate granted 13/10/1945 in Manchester to Mary Hannah Grundy, Harry's mother.
|Home address=Son of John and Mary Hannah Grundy of Shaw, Lancashire.  At the time of the 1939 General Register, Harry was living at Crompton, Lancashire and working as a Big Piecer at a Cotton Spinning Mill.  Father lived at 65, Beech Street, Shaw, Near Oldham.  
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