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|Surname and forenames=Hine Gordon (Regimental records show initials as G T).
|Army number=4275565
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=11/12/1916 at Stannington, Northumberland (to be confirmed as there are conflicting research results).
|Age=27
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 24/2/1944 at Hindato, 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 from Cerebral Malaria and Cardiac Failure 24/2/1944.  Buried initially by Lt Col H S Flower, Battalion Commander.  Commemorated on Column 47 of the Singapore Memorial (presumably his remains were not able to be recovered from the initial burial).  Probate was granted on 12/4/1946 at Newcastle upon Tyne to Elizabeth J Hine, his widow.
|Home address=Father - Joseph Metcalfe Hine, mother Sarah Jobling McDougal.  At the time of the 1939 Register, Gordon was a single man, living in Acklington and working as a Lorry Driver in the building industry. He married Elizabeth J Hume in Northumberland on 5/10/1940.  Gordon's wife lived at 24, Newborough Street, Amble, Northumberland.  
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