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|Surname and forenames=Pearson Joseph
|Army number=4273941
|Rank=Lance Corporal
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Probably 1915, but exact date not yet known.
|Age=28 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 19/7/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – location Tonchan Spring, Siam.
|Company/Battery=Y Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=Lance Corporal.
|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 19/7/1943 - cause of death Cholera.  Interred Grave 9, Tonchan Spring, buried by Lieutenant C Cruddas of 9th RNF.  Re-interred in Grave 5.K.11. Chungkai War Cemetery - exact date not yet known.  Headstone inscription reads:- "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS".
|Home address=Son of Robert and Elizabeth Pearson. Husband of Mary Pearson (nee Sanderson) of 7, Jubilee Terrace, Seahouses, Northumberland.  
}}