McGregor Walter George Fusilier 4274018
Personnel Entry
Name McGregor Walter George
Army number 4274018
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 15/12/1943 at Kanchanaburi, 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 Dysentery and Beri Beri following weakness and starvation.
Home address Son of Walter and Isabella McGregor. Husband of Dorothy Elsie McGregor who lived at Carr Farm, Pool Lane, Green Hammerton, North Yorkshire. Buried initially in grave 460 No. 2 Cemetery, Kanchanaburi. Re-interred grave 2.C.51. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
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