View source for Sweeting Charles Stewart Wilcox Fusilier 4279387

{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Sweeting Charles Stewart Wilcox
|Army number=4279387
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=8/11/1919, South Shields.  Mother's maiden surname Manley.
|Age=24 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 12/9/1944 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – at sea, en route from Singapore to Japan, when the transport Rakuyo Maru was torpedoed by an Allied submarine.
|Company/Battery=Y 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 12/9/1944 - cause of death - drowning.  Commemorated on Column 48 of the Singapore Memorial as, presumably, Charles' remains were unable to be recovered.  Probate granted 30/4/1946 at Durham Registry to Mary Topping Sweeting, mine surface labourer.
|Home address=Charles lived at 14 Adolphus Street, Whitburn, County Durham.  
}}



To read a detailed article by the IWM  on the sinking of these Japanese transports, please click [https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-sinking-of-prisoner-of-war-transport-ships-in-the-far-east here].