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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Charleson Oliver
|Army number=4275800
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=
|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
|Age=27
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. DIED 12/9/1944 - location not yet known.
|Company/Battery=
|Task or role=
|Promotions=
|Wounded=
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 12/9/1944 - cause of death not yet known.
|Home address=Son of Oliver and Ethel Charleson. Husband of Mary Charleson of South Shields. No details available of initial interment. Commemorated on Column 46 of the Singapore Memorial.
}}

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 |Rank=Fusilier
 |Decorations=None known.
-|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
+|Date of birth=24/1/1917.  Birth registered 1917 at South Shields.  Mother's maiden surname Murray.
 |Age=27 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  DIED at sea 12/9/1944 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese and being transported from Singapore to Japan, when the Rakuyo Maru was torpedoed by an Allied submarine.  Reported MISSING by the Japanese.
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED at sea 12/9/1944 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese and being transported from Singapore to Japan, when the Rakuyo Maru was torpedoed by an Allied submarine.  Reported MISSING by the Japanese.
 |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.
+|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 46 of the Singapore Memorial.
+|Died/Killed in action=DIED 12/9/1944 - cause of death - drowning.  Commemorated on Column 46 of the Singapore Memorial as presumably Oliver's remains were unable to be recovered.  Probate granted 1/4/1946 at Newcastle upon Tyne to Oliver Charleson, miner (Oliver's father).
-|Home address=Son of Oliver and Ethel Charleson.  Husband of Mary Charleson of South Shields.
+|Home address=Son of Oliver and Ethel Charleson.  At the time of the 1939 General Register, Oliver was a single man living with his family at 15, Berham Street and working as an Ironfoundry Labourer.  He had already been accepted as a Special Constable.  Oliver married Mary Binks in Q2, 1940 at South Shields.  Husband of Mary Charleson of 158, Ashley Road, South Shields.
 }}
 To read a detailed article from the Imperial War Museum on the sinkings of Japanese transports please click [https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-sinking-of-prisoner-of-war-transport-ships-in-the-far-east here].

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 |Date of birth=Date not yet known.
 |Age=27 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  DIED at sea 12/9/1944 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese and being transported from Singapore to Japan, when the Rakuyo Maru was topedoed by an Allied submarine.  Reported MISSING by the Japanese.
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  DIED at sea 12/9/1944 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese and being transported from Singapore to Japan, when the Rakuyo Maru was torpedoed by an Allied submarine.  Reported MISSING by the Japanese.
 |Company/Battery=Y Company.
 |Task or role=Not yet known.