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| − | |Home address=Mother lived at 16, Laburnum Avenue, Whitley Bay. Buried initially in grave 95, Kanchanaburi by Reverend Davidson, Chaplain to the Forces. | + | |Home address=Son of Minnie Jane Midgley and stepson of Daniel McKay of Whitley Bay, Northumberland. Mother lived at 16, Laburnum Avenue, Whitley Bay. Buried initially in grave 95, Kanchanaburi by Reverend Davidson, Chaplain to the Forces. Re-interred in grave 2.F.77. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. |
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Revision as of 15:19, 19 August 2016
Personnel Entry
Name Midgley Leslie
Army number 4275182
Rank Fusilier
Decorations
Date of birth Date not yet known.
Age 24
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. DIED 17/7/1943 (CWGC has 18/7/1943) at Kanchanaburi, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
Company/Battery HO Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
Died/Killed in action DIED of Dysentery 18/7/1943 (Regimental Orders show 17/7/1943).
Home address Son of Minnie Jane Midgley and stepson of Daniel McKay of Whitley Bay, Northumberland. Mother lived at 16, Laburnum Avenue, Whitley Bay. Buried initially in grave 95, Kanchanaburi by Reverend Davidson, Chaplain to the Forces. Re-interred in grave 2.F.77. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
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