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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Tait William
|Army number=4271073
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Birth registered 1918 at Glendale, Northumberland; mother's maiden surname Kerr.
|Age=26 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 5/6/1945 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – location unknown.
|Company/Battery=X 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 5/6/1945 - cause of death Malaria.  Interred in Grave E6, at Nakom Paton.  Re-interred 4/2/1946 in Grave 8.A.67. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  No headstone inscription.
|Home address=Research indicates that William married Amy Davison at Belford in Q4, 1934.  Wife lived at Ford Westfield, Berwick on Tweed, apparently together with his mother.    
}}


Fusilier William Tait appears to be the brother of Fusilier John Tait, who Died at Tarsoa on 9th March 1944.