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Rank : Lance Corporal

Army Number : 4859890

Unit : 1st Bn

Biography :

Enlisted 15.9.1939 into the Militia. Later served with the 1st Bn in Malayan campaign, and was taken Prisoner of War. He was released in 1945. Discharged under paragraph 390 (XVIII) Kings Regulations in 1946.

Further information: 1939 - 1940 drafted to Northern India in association with Lord Mountbatten's Defence of India Strategy. Stationed at the Amber Fort, Agra. Promoted Lance Corporal when appointed driver for the COs car. Sent to Malaya in 1941. Taken PoW at the fall of Singapore on the 15th February, 1942 after action at the Battle of Jitra and the withdrawel down the Malay Peninsular with the British Battalion (the remnants of the East Surreys and 1st Bn Leicestershire Regiment). Interred in Changi jail, Singapore. Transferred to Japanese labour camps along Malay/Thai/Burma Railway construction 1942 to 1945. Liberated by USA forces 1945 after Japan Surrender.

MedalS: Battle of Britain Star, Pacific Star (Burma), Defence Medal and War Medal 1939-45.

Medical History:

1940 India - Grumbling Appendicitis - Hospital
1941 Malaya - Foot Rot between all toes - Battalion MIR
1941 Malaya - Ring worm - Bn MIR
1942 Malaya - In action, slight flesh wound - First aid post
PoW:
1942 Malaya - Dysentery - Camp Hospital
1942 Malaya - Dengue fever - Camp Hospital
1943 Malaya - Dysentery - Camp Hospital
1943/4 Malaya - Tropical Ulcers - Camp MIRoom
1944 Malaya - Sceptic Prickly Heat - Camp MIR
1944 Malaya - Dysentery (twice) - Camp Hospital
1944 Malaya - Jaundice - Camp Hospital
1944/5 Malaya - Pure Sciatica left leg - Hospital and MIR
1945 Malaya - Dysentery (last time) - Camp Hospital
1945 Malaya - Beri Beri - MIR
1945 Malaya - Tropical Ulcers - MIR
1945 Malaya - Scrotall Dermititis - MIR
1945 Malaya - Cholic - Camp Hospital
1945 Malaya - Memory loss

Comments By The Ministry:

All available evidence has been included in the Statement of Case, and as regards the assessment, the attention of theTribunal is drawn to the Oppinion of the Medical Services dated 17.8.53.

Some information from private source.

Date of Birth : 2.9.1918

Place of Birth : Leicester

Date of Death : April 1997

Place of Death : Loros Hospice, Leicester

Civil Occupation : Locomotive Driver

Period of Service : 1939-46

Conflicts : WW2

Places Served : India & Malaya