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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Hemmings Sidney
|Army number=4127779
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=
|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
|Age=24
|Unit=Enlisted in the Cheshire Regiment - dates not known. Transferred to, or re-enlisted in, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. DIED 22/8/1943 at Sunkrae on the Burma-Siam border whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=W Company
|Task or role=
|Promotions=
|Wounded=
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED of Dysentery 22/8/1943.
|Home address=Father lived at 84, Marmsbury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham. Buried initially in grave No. 2, Block B, Row 4, No. 2 Cemetery - Sunkrae.
}}

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 |Decorations=None known.
 |Date of birth=Research suggests birth registered 1919 in Aston, Birmingham.  Mother's maiden surname Cooke.
-|Age=24
+|Age=24 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in the Cheshire Regiment - dates not known.  Transferred to, or re-enlisted in, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 22/8/1943 (CWGC shows 22/8/1945) at Sunkrae on the Burma-Siam border whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Cheshire Regiment - dates not known.  Transferred to, or re-enlisted in, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 22/8/1943 at Sunkrae on the Burma-Siam border whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
 |Company/Battery=W Company
 |Task or role=Not yet known.
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 |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 of Dysentery 22/8/1943 (Regimental records).  Buried initially in Grave No. 2, Block B, Row 4, No. 2 Cemetery - Sunkrae.  Re-interred December 1945 in Grave B3.H.3. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST".
+|Died/Killed in action=DIED of Dysentery 22/8/1943 (Regimental records).  Buried initially in Grave No. 2, Block B, Row 4, No. 2 Cemetery - Sunkrae.  Re-interred December 1945 in Grave B3.H.3. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST".  The reburial record does not show a date of death but Fus Hemmings is listed with other casualties in date order which would support a death date of 22/8/1943.  CWGC records may have included an error in which that date is shown as 22/8/1945.
 |Home address=Son of Thomas and Ethel Jane Hemmings of Small Heath, Birmingham.  Father lived at 84, Marmsbury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham.
 }}

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 |Army number=4127779
 |Rank=Fusilier
-|Decorations=
+|Decorations=None known.
-|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
+|Date of birth=Research suggests birth registered 1919 in Aston, Birmingham.  Mother's maiden surname Cooke.
 |Age=24
-|Unit=Enlisted in the Cheshire Regiment - dates not known.  Transferred to, or re-enlisted in, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  DIED 22/8/1943 (CWGC shows 22/8/1945) at Sunkrae on the Burma-Siam border whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Cheshire Regiment - dates not known.  Transferred to, or re-enlisted in, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 22/8/1943 (CWGC shows 22/8/1945) at Sunkrae on the Burma-Siam border whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
 |Company/Battery=W Company
-|Task or role=
+|Task or role=Not yet known.
-|Promotions=
+|Promotions=None known.
-|Wounded=
+|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 of Dysentery 22/8/1943.
+|Died/Killed in action=DIED of Dysentery 22/8/1943 (Regimental records).  Buried initially in Grave No. 2, Block B, Row 4, No. 2 Cemetery - Sunkrae.  Re-interred December 1945 in Grave B3.H.3. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST".
-|Home address=Son of Thomas and Ethel Jane Hemmings of Small Heath, Birmingham.  Father lived at 84, Marmsbury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham.  Buried initially in grave No. 2, Block B, Row 4, No. 2 Cemetery - Sunkrae.  Re-interred in grave B3.H.3. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.
+|Home address=Son of Thomas and Ethel Jane Hemmings of Small Heath, Birmingham.  Father lived at 84, Marmsbury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham.
 }}