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|Surname and forenames=Mason Frederick
|Army number=4275559
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Research suggests birth registered at Tynemouth, Northumberland, 1919.  Mother's maiden surname Mason.
|Age=24 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 7/8/1943 at Kinsiok Station, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=Z Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=Lance Corporal.
|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 Cholera 7/8/1943.  Buried initially in Grave H4 at Kinsiok by Major Webb, Punjab Regiment.  Re-interred 16/3/1946 in Grave 8.H.51. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART" HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE".
|Home address=Aunt - Mrs H Cummings - lived at 24, Hawthorne Villas, Cramlington, Northumberland.  
}}