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|Surname and forenames=Thompson George Edward
|Army number=4271609
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Not yet definitively traced.
|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 22/5/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – location Sunkrae, Burma-Siam border.  Battalion records show date of death as 22/8/1943.
|Company/Battery=Y Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None 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 22/5/1943 - cause of death Dysentery.  Interred in Grave No.2 Block B, Row 3, No. 2 Cemetery Sunkrae.  Re-interred December 1945 in Grave B3.J.7. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.  No headstone inscription.
|Home address=Son of John and Alice Thomson of East Chevington, Northumberland.  Mother lived at 61, Simonside Terrace, East Chevington.  
}}