Mogie Hugh Gordon Sergeant 4269643 - Revision history

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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Mogie Hugh Gordon
|Army number=4269643
|Rank=Sergeant
|Decorations=
|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
|Age=30
|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 and Sarah Jane Mogie. Husband of Priscilla Mogie of Wideopen, Northumberland. Commemorated on Column 45 of the Singapore Memorial.
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 |Rank=Sergeant
 |Decorations=None known.
-|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
+|Date of birth=Born January 1914, South Shields.  Birth registered Q1 1914, mother's maiden surname Maley (although see below).
 |Age=30 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 from Singapore to Japan, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, when the transport Rakuyo Maru was torpedoed by an Allied submarine.
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 12/9/1944, at sea, en route from Singapore to Japan, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, when the transport Rakuyo Maru was torpedoed by an Allied submarine.
 |Company/Battery=Y Company.
 |Task or role=Not yet known.
-|Promotions=Sgt.
+|Promotions=Sergeant.
 |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 45 of the Singapore Memorial.
+|Died/Killed in action=DIED 12/9/1944 - cause of death - drowning.  Commemorated on Column 45 of the Singapore Memorial as presumably Hugh's remains were unable to be recovered.  Probate granted 11/4/1946 at Newcastle upon Tyne to Priscilla Mogie, widow of Hugh.
-|Home address=Son of William and Sarah Jane Mogie.  Husband of Priscilla Mogie of Wideopen, Northumberland.
+|Home address=Son of William (1874 - 1943) and Sarah Jane Mogie (nee Maloy - although see above).  Lived at 5, Oak Street, Seaton Burn, Northumberland.  Married Q4 1941 to Priscilla Connell in Northumberland South District.  Husband of Priscilla Mogie of Wideopen, Northumberland.
 }}
 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].