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|Surname and forenames=Reed Joseph
|Army number=4276545
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None as far as is known.
|Date of birth=Research suggests 17/6/1916.  Birth registered 1916, mother's maiden surname Walls.
|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 29/6/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – location Kinsiok, Siam.
|Company/Battery=X Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=Not as far as is 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 29/6/1943 - cause of death Dysentery.  Interred by Captain C C Webb, 6th Suffolks, presumably at Kinsiok.  No details of this on CWGC records, presumably as his remains were unable to be recovered post-war.  Commemorated on Column 47 of the Singapore Memorial.  No trace of Probate Grant.
|Home address=Son of Mr and Mrs J Reed of Benwell.  Worked as a Shipyard Labourer.  At the time of the 1939 General Register he was single. Married Clara Moffat Q2 1940, Newcastle upon Tyne. 
Husband of C Reed of 68 Midway, Low Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne.  
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