Jarrett Geoffrey Alwyn Fusilier 5949191
Personnel Entry
Name Jarrett Geoffrey Alwyn
Army number 5949191
Rank Fusilier
Decorations
Date of birth Date not yet known.
Age 25
Unit Enlisted in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment - dates not known. Transferred to, or re-enlisted in, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served Malaya. DIED 16/8/1943 at Kinsiok, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
Company/Battery X 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 from Cholera and myocardiac degeneration 16/8/1943.
Home address No family information available other than that a friend - Miss P Chanley - lived at 1 St Aubens Road, The Haugh, Bolton. Buried initially by Lt A C Addy of the Battalion. Re-interred in collective grave 6. G. 1-67. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
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