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The Badge of this unit was an Indian sword (a Tulwar) in silver, raised aloft in a clenched fist set on a black circular background. The sign was chosen to Symbolise the "Swift and Deadly Execution o …
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Qurban Ali was born in 1920, Hamirpur Sidhar Jammu Akhnoor, in a small village in British India. At just 17 years old, he was consumed by a passion to serve his country and joined the British Indian A …
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This story of Flight Lieutenant Joseph M Qualtrough was prepared by his son John with help from sister Josephine, brother Terry and sister-in-law Gill, recounting "things our Dad and Mum told us", plu …
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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 …
