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|Surname and forenames=Sweeney Thomas
|Army number=4276942
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Research suggests 20/4/1915 but this may not be accurate, as there are many men with the same name born around this time.
|Age=37 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 2/9/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – location Tanbizaya, on arrival by train.
|Company/Battery=W 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 2/9/1943 - cause of death as yet unknown.  Interred Grave 117, Tanbizaya.  Re-interred January 1946 in Grave B1.F.7. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "GOD GENTLY CLOSED YOUR WEARY EYES AND TOOK YOU IN HIS CARE - R.I.P.".  Probate granted 17/5/1946 at Newcastle upon Tyne to Mary Lally, widow. 
|Home address=Son of John and B A Sweeney of Newcastle upon Tyne.  At the time of the 1939 General Register Thomas lived with his wife at West Farm Bedlingtonshire and worked as a tractor driver (again, this requires confirmation as the research threw up many men with the same name of similar age).  Mrs Sweeney lived at 2, Westbury Avenue, Daisy Hill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.   
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