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|Surname and forenames=White William
|Army number=4278508
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Not yet identified - common name.
|Age=31 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 19/4/1942 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese – location Changi, Singapore.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|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 19/4/1942 - cause of death Encephalitis.  Initially interred in Grave 3/L 12 Changi Cemetery A-E-3.  Re-interred 20/4/1946 in Grave 7.C.18. Kranji War Cemetery.  No headstone inscription.
|Home address=Wife lived at 9, Burn Row, East Holleywell, Northumberland.  Date of marriage and identity of spouse not yet finally traced. 
}}