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|Surname and forenames=Mulligan John Edward
|Army number=4272857
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Research indicates birth registered in Dublin South, Ireland, Q2 1918.
|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 24/8/1945 having been a prisoner of the Japanese - location Diitry, 12 km from Pratchapkirikan, Siam according to Regimental notes.
|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 24/8/1945 - cause of death Dysentery according to Regimental notes.   Buried initially in Grave 148 at 12 Kilometere Camp - presumably at Pratchapkirikan.  Re-buried 2/4/1946 in Grave 6.D.71. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "SO DEARLY LOVED, SO GREATLY MISSED. DAD, MOTHER".  Probate granted 24/9/1946 at London to Mary Josephine Mulligan, wife of John Francis Mulligan.
|Home address=Son of John Francis and Mary Josephine Mulligan of Watford, Hertfordshire.  John had lived at 19, Belgrave Avenue, Watford. 
Mother lived at 19, Belgrave Avenue, Watford, Herts.  
}}