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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Reilly James
|Army number=4274136
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None as far as is known.
|Date of birth=1915 or 1916 but exact date not yet known.
|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 28/7/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – location Kanchanaburi, Siam.
|Company/Battery=X Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None 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 28/7/1943 - cause of death unknown.  Interred by Reverend Davidson, Chaplain to the Forces, in Grave 115, Kanchanaburi Paper Mill.  Re-interred 29/1/1946 in Grave 2.G.7. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "ETERNAL REST GRANT UNTO HIM, O LORD R.I.P".
|Home address=Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Reilly of Glenboig, Lanarkshire.  Mother lived at 16, Emma Street, Widdrington, Morpeth, Northumberland.  
}}