Calvert Alexander John Fusilier 4275793
Personnel Entry
Name Calvert Alexander John
Army number 4275793
Rank Fusilier
Decorations None known.
Date of birth Born December 1917, Tynemouth.
Age 27 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served B.E.F.? Served Malaya. KILLED 8/12/1944 whilst a prisoner in Japanese hands.
Company/Battery Y Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Not yet known.
Joined Brigade
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not as far as is known.
Prisoner of War Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore when the force was surrendered.
Died/Killed in action KILLED in an Allied Air Raid 8/12/1944, 190 Kilometres along the Siam/Burma railway. Buried initially in Common Grave 190 Keedjie, by Captain R Robertson of the Federation of Malay States Volunteer Force. Re-interred in Collective Grave 5. A. 1-47 in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery - probably in March 1946. Headstone inscription reads:- "ETERNAL REST GIVE UNTO HIM, O LORD; AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM. AMEN".
Home address Son of Isaac Alexander Calvert and Elizabeth Calvert (nee Gannon). Husband of Lily Mary Calvert of Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne. Married Lily Douglas, Q2 1936, Newcastle upon Tyne. Wife lived at 119 Corbridge Street, Byker. Probate granted 18/3/1946, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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