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Here are some short extracts from the closing entries written in 1945 by Gunner Arthur Ogwen Jones 12904, in his POW diary. Posted to Singapore from the UK in 1938 by virtue of his job with a shipping …
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Charles Marment, the son of the late Major Arthur V. Marment MC & Bar, has submitted his father's memoirs which Arthur wrote for the People's War team in Wales. "When the end of the Burma war c …
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My father, Joseph Marks, was drafted in early 1940 and his troopship was part of a convoy dispatched to reinforce the British garrison at Singapore. Due to German U-boat activity in the Mediterrane …
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My father, Jack Barrett, was from Lancashire and enlisted as a Private in the RAOC in October 1939. He was in the Dunkirk evacuation BEF and received a commendation for his actions. Jack trained …
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This book is about Herbert Charles Philip Cannon's time in the British Army during the Second World War when he saw active service in France, Africa, India and Burma. It has been compiled using his Ar …
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In June 1942, No 42 (Torpedo Bomber) Sqn prepared to move to the Far East. The ground element departing on 8 June 1942 aboard the MV Stirling Castle. When they arrived in Yalahanka things looked ver …
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I was born, christened and baptised Edward Robson. I was known as Edward by my family and friends, at school it became Pop Robson, as Eddie by my soul mate for 60 years and during my early and mid-lif …
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My father, Dhunjishaw Jamshedji Batliwala, known to friends and family as Dhun, sometimes spelled Dhan, was born on the 4th of October, 1904, in the town of Dharwar, then part of Bombay Presidency and …
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In early October, the Chindit Society was pleased to receive the following enquiry from Steven Brownhill:"My father Mons Brownhill, served as a Chindit with the 2nd Yorks & Lancs and I would appreciat …
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In early October, the Chindit Society was pleased to receive the following enquiry from Steven Brownhill:"My father Mons Brownhill, served as a Chindit with the 2nd Yorks & Lancs and I would appreciat …
