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Killed in Action
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
5th Battalion
History
With the help of Martyn Fryer
Compiled by Ron Taylor
Thailand-Burma Railway
From Fred Taylor (Private 5776807)
Conditions at Changi were very bleak, rice and green leaves were our diet, the water had to be boiled and the sanitary conditions were terrible, so I was glad to get away with the June Mainland Party, which we were told would be better conditions and food. With a party of 600 others under the command of Major P.D. Weir of the 118 Field Regiment, RA, and Major M.T. Read, 196 Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. both of the 18th Division. We were herded into cattle trucks and driven up Malaya and into Thailand.
Cattle trucks to Thailand
by Charles Thrale
After five days in those cattle trucks, which were very cold at night and stiflingly hot during the day, we were very grateful to arrive at Non Pladuk and were treated very well, the food was a lot better then at Changi. Our first job was to clear a large area of trees and put up our atapi shelters, we were told a Japanese workshop was to be built there, then word got around that it was to be the start of a railway line to go 415kms to Burma.
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Atapi Shelter
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Picture Supplied by Helen Elliott
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As the Jap engineers started to arrived a cook house was set up, Jimmy O'Conner was Divisional HQ cook and he asked me to volunteer with him to help the Jap cooks. We settled down to making manjou cakes for the Japs, we had to grind the rice into a kind of flour by hitting it with a mallet, soya beans were then given the same treatment, then water was added to the rice making a kind of dough, the soya beans were then added and the Japs ate these raw. Jimmy had the idea of baking them like we would buns, he talked the Japanese cook into trying this, and they were an immediate success. The Japanese cook's name was Otto, he took us under his wing making about 1,000 manjou cakes a day using Jimmy's recipe.
By October the now infamous Death Railway was under way and the guards now arriving were Koreans and Sikhs, they were a lot more sadistic then the Japs, being held under by the Japs for a long time, it was now their turn to serve out the punishment and this they did with gusto. A large bamboo cane was carried by the guards, this was nicknamed the 'bamboo interpreter', if they wanted to get the message across, you would feel it on the most sensitive parts of your body.
In October working parties arrived to start building the embankments and laying the railway lines on the formed tracks. The railway tracks from Burma and Thailand were joined at Konkoita in October 1943.
The price paid 12,614 Allied deaths
Plus an estimated 80,000 Romusha (Native Labour) deaths.
Death Roll
Thailand-Burma Railway
Please click on the  next to each date below to extend information
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Died
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Name
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Service/No
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1942/11/20
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Harvey, Charles Henry
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5950975
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1942/12/09
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Deacon, Ralph Malcolm
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5949633
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1942/12/14
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Searle, Joseph Douglas
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5953151
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1943/01/12
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Bond, John
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5952560
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1943/04/15
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Quenby, Richard
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5950023
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1943/04/17
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Smy, Walter George
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5951937
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1943/04/19
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Smith, William Finlay George
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6024448
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1943/04/29
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Deacon, William Henry
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5951358
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1943/05/14
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Franklin, John Daniel
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5953055
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1943/05/14
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Williams, Richard Ernest
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5955661
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1943/05/16
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Lee, Thomas John
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5953106
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1943/05/17
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Phillips, Kenneth William
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5953131
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1943/05/19
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Marks, George Edward
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5959250
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1943/05/25
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Dudley, Francis William
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5950452
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1943/05/27
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Bartlett, Alex
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5951312
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1943/05/27
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Timpson, Reginald James
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5951723
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1943/05/28
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Bardell, Arthur Henry
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5953335
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1943/05/31
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Dawson, Frederick Charles
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5948868
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1943/06/05
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Crane, Leslie Kenneth
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5950719
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1943/06/07
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Catlin, Horace Arthur
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5955758
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1943/06/07
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Bilner, Reginald Alec
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5955497
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1943/06/08
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Burch, James Oliver Robert
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5951789
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1943/06/12
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Morris, Leonard Charles
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5953706
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1943/06/13
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Farnham, Harold
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5956269
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1943/06/13
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Mannall, Albert Leslie
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5950951
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1943/06/14
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Varney, William
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5959118
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1943/06/14
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Angell, David Morrison
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5952585
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1943/06/14
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Chambers, Arthur Edward
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5953208
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1943/06/17
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Owen, Leonard
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5947386
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1943/06/17
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Lane, Charles Thomas
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5952653
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1943/06/19
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Wright, Arthur George
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5950048
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1943/06/20
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Fensome, Claude
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5955321
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1943/06/21
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Braysher, Albert Frederick
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5956849
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1943/06/21
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Holliman, Ernest Charles
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5959068
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1943/06/23
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Lewin, John
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5952004
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1943/06/23
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Bloss, George
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5946345
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1943/06/23
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Ball, Kenneth Owen
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2210825
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1943/06/24
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Cox, Reginald Thomas
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5951976
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1943/06/26
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White, Walter
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5952635
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1943/06/26
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Clarke, Frederick William Henry
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5950198
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1943/06/26
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Brant, Alfred John
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5959184
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1943/06/26
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Gooch, Granville Stewart
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5950172
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1943/06/29
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Clews, Cyril
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5953824
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1943/06/29
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Patterson, Kenneth
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5953129
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1943/06/30
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Devonshire, Charles Sidney
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5955535
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1943/06/30
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Priestley, Henry
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5956691
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1943/06/30
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Rayment, Harold Edward
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5952550
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1943/07/01
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Pope, David George
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5955317
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1943/07/02
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Barnard, Stanley Charles
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5945846
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1943/07/02
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Biggs, Robert Dobson
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5953195
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1943/07/02
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Beadle, James George
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5958718
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1943/07/03
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Gurney, Leonard Ralph
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5955570
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1943/07/03
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Moorby, Albert Charles
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5950944
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1943/07/03
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Page, Albert Charles
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5952654
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1943/07/03
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Wiles, Edward Claude
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5950044
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1943/07/04
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Denney, David Beatty
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5955533
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1943/07/04
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Stephenson, George
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5955748
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1943/07/05
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Free, Leonard
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5955557
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1943/07/06
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Jones, Alfred William
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5953644
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1943/07/06
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Watts, Thomas George
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5950170
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1943/07/07
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Johnson, Alfred
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5950957
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1943/07/10
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Day, William John
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5951061
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1943/07/10
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Freeman, Jack
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5956968
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1943/07/12
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Lane, Alfred George
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5949684
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1943/07/13
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White, Sydney
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5952577
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1943/07/15
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Puplett, Robert
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5950155
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1943/07/16
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Smith, John William
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5952950
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1943/07/16
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Cobbold, George Albert
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5953027
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1943/07/17
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Hawes, Horace Edgar
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5950421
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1943/07/17
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Scrutton, Donald Frank
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5951961
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1943/07/20
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Perryman, Ernest
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5951407
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1943/07/20
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Hull, Jack
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5956291
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1943/07/21
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Humphrey, Frederick William
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5951388
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1943/07/21
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Williams, Albert Walter
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5952302
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1943/07/22
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Bruce, Edward Ernest Henry Ted
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5952603
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1943/07/24
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Clarke, Charles
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5950308
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1943/07/27
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Wheatley, Walter John
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5953180
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1943/07/27
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Burns, William Parker
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5952703
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1943/07/27
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Loss, Horace
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5959012
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1943/07/30
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Gurney, Francis George
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5951376
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1943/07/31
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Cox, Herbert Walter
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6004971
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1943/07/31
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Larman, Cyril Bonar
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5952341
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1943/08/02
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Hillyard, Stanley Walter
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5951385
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1943/08/04
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Smith, Ralph Charles Sydney
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5953160
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1943/08/04
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Game, Joseph
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5951987
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1943/08/06
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Fellows, Reginald Hardwick
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5952198
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1943/08/06
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Bone, Frederick Albert
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5955505
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1943/08/07
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Dawson, Stanley Albert
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5950976
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1943/08/08
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Smith, Henry Charles
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5953159
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1943/08/09
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Large, George Edward
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5950136
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1943/08/10
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Jenkins, Ernest Cario
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5951998
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1943/08/11
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Keirle, Frederick
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5953098
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1943/08/12
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Rowe, Arthur James
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5956449
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1943/08/12
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Harwood, Richard William
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5950612
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1943/08/13
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Haughton, Derrick Basil
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5952464
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1943/08/14
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Goodwin, Charles William
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5945810
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1943/08/17
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Goode, Leslie George
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5955564
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1943/08/17
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Young, Owen Arthur
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5953194
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1943/08/18
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Hall, Sidney James
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5953065
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1943/08/18
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Burnage, Sidney George
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5951948
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1943/08/19
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Hummerstone, Percy William
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5951891
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1943/08/20
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Bonathan, Harold Archibald
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5953930
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1943/08/22
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Clark, Basil John
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5956248
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1943/08/23
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Grace, Alfred Charles Henry
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5951369
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1943/08/23
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Barker, Frederick Arthur
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5949335
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1943/08/25
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Maddams, Percy Richard
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5955490
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1943/08/26
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Gibbs, Harold
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5955561
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1943/08/27
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Cherry, Frank Dennis
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5951349
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1943/08/27
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Nash, John James
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5951398
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1943/08/28
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Philipson, Harold
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5946267
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1943/08/28
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Thody, John Thomas
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5952663
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1943/08/30
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Fortnum, Ralph Ernest
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5960359
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1943/08/30
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Geary, Leonard
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5955559
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1943/09/01
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Harris, Walter Colin
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5950327
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1943/09/01
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Norton, Thomas William
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5953124
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1943/09/02
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Hall, Charles John
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5956297
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1943/09/02
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Chambers, Douglas George
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5953207
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1943/09/08
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Willoughby, Albert William
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5956749
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1943/09/09
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Monk, Albert Frederick
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5950941
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1943/09/10
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Cook, Alfred
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5950460
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1943/09/10
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Newell, Edgar Herbert
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5959689
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1943/09/12
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Bamsey, Phillip Henry
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5956170
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1943/09/14
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Blyth, Reginald George
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5952598
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1943/09/17
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Jacob, Herbert Arthur
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5948816
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1943/09/19
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Hayday, Thomas Victor
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5951383
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1943/09/19
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Avey, Eric Leslie
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5951963
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1943/09/19
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Turney, Edgar Harold
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5953172
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1943/09/21
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Wildman, Maurice Arthur
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5951421
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1943/09/21
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Mean, Leonard John
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5955460
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1943/09/22
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Saunders, Charles
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5951943
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1943/09/22
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Pycock, Alfred Leslie
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5950736
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1943/09/22
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Higgins, Samuel
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5951380
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1943/09/22
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Clark, Stanley
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5951265
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1943/09/24
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Ainsworth, Francis Ernest
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5950225
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1943/09/25
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Collins, Joshua Louis
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5955777
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1943/09/26
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Knight, Douglas Edward
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5950166
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1943/09/27
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Parrott, Leslie Joseph
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5950109
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1943/09/29
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Hornsby, Leslie Charles
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5949698
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1943/09/30
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Parker, Victor George
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5951254
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1943/10/04
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Williams, George
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5955659
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1943/10/04
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Bozier, William David
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5956240
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1943/10/06
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Stonton, Frank Ernest
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5952285
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1943/10/09
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Law, John Frederick
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5952002
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1943/10/09
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Robinson, Wardle Hunter
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5951409
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1943/10/12
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Cannon, Harry Morgan
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5956256
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1943/10/13
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Clarke, Sidney Melville
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5956259
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1943/10/17
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Evison, Harold Thorn
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5951125
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1943/10/17
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Harper, Roland Alexander
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5951991
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1943/10/18
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Cox, Charles Alfred
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5949272
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1943/10/19
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Hollier, Francis Edward
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5951387
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1943/10/21
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Freeman, Philip John
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5956273
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1943/10/24
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Pettit, Edmund John
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5949064
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1943/10/26
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Payne, Stanley John
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5952345
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1943/10/27
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Holden, Jack Percy
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5955585
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1943/10/28
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Martin, Leonard
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5950987
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1943/10/29
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Collier, James
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5955776
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1943/10/31
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Cook, Arthur Frederick
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5950135
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1943/11/01
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Clark, Herbert Charles
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5950056
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1943/11/10
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Davies, Arthur
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5956265
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1943/11/12
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Kirby, Maurice
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5955624
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1943/11/13
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Geeves, Harold Frank
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5953058
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1943/11/14
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Goody, Reginald
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5960329
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1943/11/14
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Gray, Ralph Ford
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5951682
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1943/11/14
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Janes, Arthur William
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5955609
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1943/11/17
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Bacon, Ronald Jack C.
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5951341
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1943/11/18
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Langston, Frederick Arthur
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5946227
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1943/11/22
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Phair, Sidney Alfred
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5950016
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1943/11/24
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Farrington, Ernest Leonard
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5953050
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1943/11/26
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Finegan, Leslie Frederick
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5953052
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1943/11/28
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Roberts, Joseph William
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5950954
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1943/11/28
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Bray, Frederick James
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5956235
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1943/11/29
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Fisher, Harry John
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5951092
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1943/11/30
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Tobin, James Francis
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5960212
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1943/12/01
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Daly, Dennis
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5953036
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1943/12/03
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Hinks, Joseph Samuel
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1733854
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1943/12/08
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Willett, Arthur Daniel
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5955656
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1943/12/09
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Scholes, Jack
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329890
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1943/12/10
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Carruthers, Leslie Gordon
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5952707
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1943/12/12
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Hamblin, Francis Joseph
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5950043
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1943/12/14
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Bell, Arthur Herbert
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5952687
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1943/12/23
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Auger, Ronald Henry
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5956214
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1943/12/24
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Fagg, William Patrick
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5955547
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1944/01/01
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Mills, Harry
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5959684
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1944/01/06
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Yirrell, Bertram Robert
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5955705
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1944/01/08
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Birch, Charles Arthur
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5952696
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1944/01/10
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Smith, John
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5951935
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1944/01/18-1944/02/19
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Slingo, Frank Edward
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5944178
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1944/01/26
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Coath, Reginald France
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5953025
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1944/01/28
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York, David George
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5952672
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1944/01/31
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O'Connor, Patrick Bernard
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5950607
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1944/02/01
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Sear, James Theodore
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5955850
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1944/02/19
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Knight, Dennis Frederick
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5955139
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1944/02/21
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Milton, Henry William
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5955144
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1944/03/07
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Whitehead, Stanley Gordon Richard
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5951416
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1944/03/21
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Wilson, Gerald Edmund Peter
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5952669
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1944/04/07
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Faughnan, Thomas
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5953051
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1944/05/25
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Spavins, Ronald Ernest
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5951415
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1944/06/06
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Goode, Leonard Francis
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5950332
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1944/07/20
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Hilson, John Thomas Henry
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5945674
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1944/08/15
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Cooper, Sydney George
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5956613
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1944/10/09
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Wickens, Charles
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5953184
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1944/10/13
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Robinson, Frederick Joseph
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5947992
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1944/12/08
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Rogers, Norman Cecil Owen
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5950175
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1944/12/08
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Wilder, John George
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5955651
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1945/06/08
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Wright, Reuben Albert
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5947588
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1945/07/08
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Purser, Frank Arthur
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2201226
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1945/08/18
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Gomme, John Edward
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5956283
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