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|Surname and forenames=Long John Robert
|Army number=4275862
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=10/4/1917 - registered in 1917.  Mother's maiden surname McDonald.
|Age=25 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry - discharged as unfit*.  Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 19/11/1942 at Wampo, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|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 from Dysentery 19/11/1942.  Buried initially in Grave 4, Wampo.  Re-interred 17/19 March 1946 in Grave 8.K.6. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "DEATH DIVIDES US BUT MEMORIES CLING".  Probate granted 18/6/1945 to Daniel Long.
|Home address=Son of Robert Albert Long and of Jane Long of South Shields, County Durham.  Mother lived at 18, Back Havelock Street, South Shields.  
}}


*John's alleged membership of the DLI needs to be investigated.  This was drawn from an entry in the 1939 General Register, taken at the end of September 1939.