Hine Gordon Fusilier 4275565
Personnel Entry
Name Hine Gordon (Regimental records show initials as G T).
Army number 4275565
Rank Fusilier
Decorations None known.
Date of birth 11/12/1916 at Stannington, Northumberland (to be confirmed as there are conflicting research results).
Age 27
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served B.E.F.? Served Malaya. DIED 24/2/1944 at Hindato, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
Company/Battery W Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Not yet known.
Joined Brigade
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not so far as is known.
Prisoner of War Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore when the force was surrendered.
Died/Killed in action DIED from Cerebral Malaria and Cardiac Failure 24/2/1944. Buried initially by Lt Col H S Flower, Battalion Commander. Commemorated on Column 47 of the Singapore Memorial (presumably his remains were not able to be recovered from the initial burial). Probate was granted on 12/4/1946 at Newcastle upon Tyne to Elizabeth J Hine, his widow.
Home address Father - Joseph Metcalfe Hine, mother Sarah Jobling McDougal. At the time of the 1939 Register, Gordon was a single man, living in Acklington and working as a Lorry Driver in the building industry. He married Elizabeth J Hume in Northumberland on 5/10/1940. Gordon's wife lived at 24, Newborough Street, Amble, Northumberland.
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