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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Knowles Samuel
|Army number=4278712
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Date not yet able to be traced.
|Age=27 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, at sea en route from Singapore to Japan, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, when the transport Rakuyo Maru was torpedoed by an Allied submarine.
|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 12/9/1944 - cause of death - drowning.  Commemorated on Column 47 of the Singapore Memorial as presumably Samuel's remains were unable to be recovered.  Probate granted 2/1/1947 at Durham Registry granted to Elizabeth May Connelley (wife of George Connelley) and presumably Samuel's widow. 
|Home address=Husband of Elizabeth May Knowles.  
}}


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].