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|Surname and forenames=Routledge Ronald
|Army number=4272832
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Research suggests he was born 1914 in Tynemouth, mother's surname Routledge.
|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.  Declared MISSING in ACTION 15/2/1942, now presumed to have been KILLED in ACTION in Singapore on the same date.
|Company/Battery=Z Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=No - killed in action before the force was surrendered.
|Died/Killed in action=Presumed Killed in action 15/2/1942.  No details available of initial interment - presumably his remains were unable to be recovered.  Commemorated on Column 48 of the Singapore Memorial.
|Home address=Son of Dorothy Routledge, nephew of Andrew Routledge of Forest Hall, Northumberland.  
}}