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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=McManus Myles
|Army number=2980548
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Assumed to be 1914, but exact date not yet known.
|Age=29 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - 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 1/8/1943 at Tarsoa, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=X Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not as 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 Dysentery and debility 1/8/1943.  Buried initially in Grave 82/2 at Tarsoa No. 2 Cemetery.  Re-interred 1/3/1946 in Grave 4.A.56. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "TOO FAR AWAY YOUR GRAVE TO SEE BUT NOT TOO FAR TO THINK OF THEE. R.I.P.".
|Home address=Son of John and Sarah McManus of Paisley, Renfrewshire.  Mother lived at 116, Fercuslie Road, Paisley, Glasgow.  
}}