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|Surname and forenames=Oliver George William Clunie
|Army number=4273940
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=June 1921.  Not yet known.
|Age=21 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 26/5/1943, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, at Tarsoa, Siam.
|Company/Battery=Z 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 26/5/1943 - cause of death Dysentery.  Interred in Grave 108/1 Tarsoa No. 1 Cemetery.  Re-interred 1/3/1946 in Grave 4.F.50. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE".  Probate granted 12/4/1946 at Newcastle upon Tyne to Isabel Oliver, widow (mother).
|Home address=Son of Alfred and Isabel Oliver of Eglingham, Northumberland.  Mother lived at The Cottage, Eglingham, Alnwick, Northumberland. 

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