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|Surname and forenames=Newton Mark
|Army number=4274091
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Birth registered 1920 at Alnwick, mother's maiden surname Davison.
|Age=23 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 28/10/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.  Location - Sunkrae on Burma-Siam border according to Regimental notes.
|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 28/10/1943 - cause of death Beri Beri.  Initial interment in Sunkrae Grave No. 2 Row 1.  Re-interred December 1945 in Grave B4.G.14. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "WE CANNOT, LORD, THY PURPOSE SEE BUT ALL IS WELL THAT'S DONE BY THEE".  Probate granted 27/6/1946 at Newcastle upon Tyne to John HUnter, farmer.
|Home address=Son of John Taylor Newton and Eleanor Newton of Outchester, Northumberland.  Mother lived at Outchester, Belford, Northumberland.  
}}