Eagleton Gerard Lance Corporal 4127820
Personnel Entry
Name Eagleton Gerard
Army number 4127820
Rank Lance Corporal
Decorations
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age 24
Unit Enlisted in the Cheshire Regiment - dates not known. Re-enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. DIED 10/2/1944 at Tarsoa, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
Company/Battery Z 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 Amoebic dysentery and debility 10/2/1944.
Home address No family details available other than that father lived at 28, Rockley Street, Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire. Buried initially in grave 596/2 at Tarsoa. Re-interred in grave 4.E.40 in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
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