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|Surname and forenames=Tonkinson Sidney
|Army number=4278917
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=2/9/1915.  Birth registered Q4 1915 in Tynemouth.  Mother's maiden surname Robinson.
|Age=28 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 9/6/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – location Tarsoa, Siam.
|Company/Battery=Z 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 9/6/1943 - cause of death Dysentery and Beri Beri.  Interred in Grave 132/1 Tarsoa NO. 1 Cemetery.  Re-interred 1/3/1946 in Grave 4.F.61. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "REMEMBRANCE".
|Home address=Son of Robert Henry and Edith Tonkinson of 26, Southwick Road, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, County Durham.   At the time of the 1939 General Register Sidney was living at 26 Southwick Road with his family and working in the Coal Mining industry as an underground shift worker.
}}