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Name Forster John Alexander
Army number 4273913
Rank Corporal
Decorations
Date of birth Date not yet known.
Age 21
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. DIED 7/9/1943 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, Ben Ben, malaria and debility 7/9/1943.
Home address Father lived at 10, Bankhill, Berwick on Tweed. Buried initially in grave 150 at Kanchanaburi by Reverend Davidson.
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