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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Hunter Herbert
|Army number=4273651
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=
|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
|Age=24
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served Malaya. DIED 12/9/1944, probably at sea en route to Japan, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Task or role=
|Promotions=
|Wounded=
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 12/9/1944.
|Home address=Son of William Brown Hunter and Emma Jane Hunter of Morpeth, Northumberland. Commemorated on Column 47 of the Singapore Memorial.
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 {{personnel
-|Surname and forenames=Hunter Herbert
+|Surname and forenames=Hunter Herbert Goward
 |Army number=4273651
 |Rank=Fusilier
 |Decorations=None known.
-|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
+|Date of birth=20/8/1920.  Birth registered 1920, mother's maiden surname Tasker.
 |Age=24 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served Malaya.  DIED 12/9/1944, at sea en route to Japan from Singapore, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese,  when the transport Rakuyo Maru was sunk by an Allied submarine.
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 7th Battalion.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 12/9/1944, at sea en route to Japan from Singapore, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese,  when the transport Rakuyo Maru was sunk by an Allied submarine.
 |Company/Battery=Y Company.
 |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.
+|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 47 of the Singapore Memorial.
+|Died/Killed in action=DIED 12/9/1944 - cause of death - drowning.   Commemorated on Column 47 of the Singapore Memorial as presumably Herbert's remains were unable to be recovered.  Probate granted 7/5/1946 at Newcastle upon Tyne to John William Arthur Curry, lorry driver.
-|Home address=Son of William Brown Hunter and Emma Jane Hunter of Morpeth, Northumberland.
+|Home address=Son of William Brown Hunter and Emma Jane Hunter of Morpeth, Northumberland.  At the time of the 1939 General Register Herbert was a single man living with his mother and brother at 36, Chevington Crescent, Morpeth and was a member of 7th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
 }}
 To read a detailed article by the IWM  on the sinking of these Japanese transports, please click [https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-sinking-of-prisoner-of-war-transport-ships-in-the-far-east here].