Fawcett Richard Corporal 4444571 - Revision history

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 |Rank=Corporal
 |Decorations=None known.
-|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
+|Date of birth=Born in Langley Park, County Durham in 1904.  Birth registered 1904, Lanchester Registration District.
 |Age=40 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry.  Transferred to, or re-enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served Malaya.  DIED 4/12/1944 (according to CWGC) - at Haito, Formosa.
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry.  Transferred to, or re-enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 4/12/1944 (according to CWGC) - at Haito, Formosa.
 |Company/Battery=Y Company.
 |Task or role=Not yet known.
 |Promotions=Corporal.
 |Wounded=Not so 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 4/12/1944 - cause of death not yet known.  Buried in Rinrakutomon Cemetery, Formosa.  Re-interred 8/7/1947 in grave V.N.10. Sai Wan Cemetery, Hong Kong.
+|Died/Killed in action=DIED 4/12/1944 - cause of death not yet known.  Buried in Rinrakutomon Cemetery (Grave reference 3-7-1), Formosa.  Re-interred 8/7/1947 in Grave V.N.10. Sai Wan Cemetery, Hong Kong.  Headstone inscription reads:- "TREASURED MEMORIES OF MY DEAR HUSBAND. DEATH DIVIDES BUT MEMORIES CLING".  Probate granted 31/10/1945 at Durham Registry to Hannah Fawcett, Richard's widow.
-|Home address=Son of William and Hannah Fawcett.  Husband of Hannah Fawcett of Middlesbrough.  Wife lived at 8, Wear Crescent, Great Lumley, Durham.
+|Home address=Son of William and Hannah Fawcett.  At the time of the 1911 Census Richard lived with his parents at Gray Yard, West Rainton, Fence Houses, County Durham.  Research suggests Richard married Hannah Bewley at Chester-le-Street in Q4, 1934.  Husband of Hannah Fawcett of Middlesbrough.  They had lived at 2 Joblings Yard, Great Lumley.  Wife subsequently lived at 8, Wear Crescent, Great Lumley, Durham.
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 |Army number=4444571
 |Rank=Corporal
-|Decorations=
+|Decorations=None known.
 |Date of birth=Date not yet known.
-|Age=40
+|Age=40 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry.  Transferred to, or re-enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served Malaya.  DIED 4/12/1944 - location not known.
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry.  Transferred to, or re-enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served Malaya.  DIED 4/12/1944 (according to CWGC) - at Haito, Formosa.
-|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
+|Company/Battery=Y Company.
-|Task or role=
+|Task or role=Not yet known.
-|Promotions=
+|Promotions=Corporal.
-|Wounded=
+|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
 |Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
-|Died/Killed in action=DIED 4/12/1944 - cause of death not yet known.
+|Died/Killed in action=DIED 4/12/1944 - cause of death not yet known.  Buried in Rinrakutomon Cemetery, Formosa.  Re-interred 8/7/1947 in grave V.N.10. Sai Wan Cemetery, Hong Kong.
-|Home address=Son of William and Hannah Fawcett.  Husband of Hannah Fawcett of Middlesbrough.  No details of initial interment.  Re-interred in grave V.N.10. Sai Wan Cemetery, Hong Kong.
+|Home address=Son of William and Hannah Fawcett.  Husband of Hannah Fawcett of Middlesbrough.  Wife lived at 8, Wear Crescent, Great Lumley, Durham.
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