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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Smith George Edward
|Army number=4274102
|Rank=Corporal
|Decorations=None yet known.
|Date of birth=Not yet known.
|Age=29 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (enlistment date not yet known). Posted to the 9th Battalion. Transferred to the Army Catering Corps. Attached to the 9th Battalion. Served Malaya. DIED 23/5/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese at Tonchan, Siam.
|Company/Battery=Y Company
|Platoon or other Sub-Unit=Probably Company HQ.
|Task or role=Company Cook.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=Corporal.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Yes, captured at Singapore 15/2/1942.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 23/5/1943 of Dysentery and Pneumonia. Interred in Grave 60, Tonchan. Re-interred 22/2/1946 Grave 8. D. 12. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. Headstone inscription reads - "NOT GONE FROM MEMORY, NOT GONE FROM LOVE BUT GONE TO OUR FATHER'S HOME ABOVE".
|Home address=Son of George and Catherine Landreth Smith of Middleton, Northumberland. Mother lived at Smeafield Lodge, Belford, Northumberland.
}}

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 |Rank=Corporal
 |Decorations=None yet known.
-|Date of birth=Not yet known.
+|Date of birth=Not yet definitively identified.
 |Age=29 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (enlistment date not yet known).  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Transferred to the Army Catering Corps.  Attached to the 9th Battalion.  Served Malaya.  DIED 23/5/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese at Tonchan, Siam.
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (enlistment date not yet known).  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Transferred to the Army Catering Corps.  Attached to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 23/5/1943 whilst a prisoner of the Japanese at Tonchan, Siam.
 |Company/Battery=Y Company
 |Platoon or other Sub-Unit=Probably Company HQ.
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 |Promotions=Corporal.
 |Wounded=Not as far as is known.
-|Prisoner of War=Yes, captured at Singapore 15/2/1942.
+|Prisoner of War=Yes, captured at Singapore 15/2/1942 when the force was surrendered.
-|Died/Killed in action=Died 23/5/1943 of Dysentery and Pneumonia.  Interred in Grave 60, Tonchan.  Re-interred 22/2/1946 Grave 8. D. 12. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads - "NOT GONE FROM MEMORY, NOT GONE FROM LOVE BUT GONE TO OUR FATHER'S HOME ABOVE".
+|Died/Killed in action=Died 23/5/1943 of Dysentery and Pneumonia.  Interred in Grave 60, Tonchan.  Re-interred 22/2/1946 Grave 8. D. 12. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads - "NOT GONE FROM MEMORY, NOT GONE FROM LOVE BUT GONE TO OUR FATHER'S HOME ABOVE".  Probate granted 7/1/1946, Newcastle upon Tyne to Catherine Landreth Smith (mother).
-|Home address=Son of George and Catherine Landreth Smith of Middleton, Northumberland.  Mother lived at Smeafield Lodge, Belford, Northumberland.
+|Home address=Son of George and Catherine Landreth Smith (nee Taylor) of Middleton, Northumberland.  Mother lived at Smeafield Lodge, Belford, Northumberland.
 }}

Smith George Edward 4274102 - Revision history

70bgadmin at 18:18, 8 July 2018

70bgadmin: Created page with "{{personnel |Surname and forenames=Smith George Edward |Army number=4274102 |Rank=Corporal |Decorations=None yet known. |Date of birth=Not yet known. |Age=29 at the time of hi..."