Mason Norman Fusilier 4274515
Personnel Entry
Name Mason Norman
Army number 4274515
Rank Fusilier (Regimental Orders state Lance Corporal).
Decorations None known.
Date of birth 1920 or 1921 but exact date not yet known (too many men with the same name born around the same time in the area to be definitive).
Age 23 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served B.E.F.? Served Malaya. DIED 6/2/1944 (CWGC has 6/3/1944) at Changi, Singapore, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
Company/Battery HQ Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Not yet known.
Joined Brigade
Promotions Lance Corporal.
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 of Cerebral malaria 6/3/1944 (Regimental Orders shows 6/2/1944). Initially interred in Grave 3/L 12 Changi Military Cemetery. Re-interred 2/5/1946 in Grave 16.B.6. Kranji War Cemetery. Headstone inscription reads:- "SLEEP SOFTLY, SON, IN HONOUR REST; SUCH SACRIFICE BY GOD IS BLESSED". Probate granted 10/12/1945 at Newcastle upon Tyne to Margaret Jane Mason, wife of George Shield Mason (Norman's mother).
Home address Son of George Shield Mason and Margaret Jane Mason of Swarland, Northumberland. Father lived at 2, Sea View, Swarland, Morpeth.
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