My father was a Lt. in the 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment HKS RA (Honk Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery) from 1941. After training at...
Evening all I’m trying to find some information about a friend’s great uncle. Harold James Wills served with the Royal Artillery 9th Coastal...
I have been sent this image of a nurse who I understand was one of the first into Singapore following the fall. Can anyone identify the medal?...
My Uncle lost his life when the Tomahoko Maru was torpedoed by submarine USS Tang on 24th June 1944. I have a death certificate issued by Japan...
Hi, Looking for some assistance in tracing info on a bloke who was in Singapore in February 1942. Known details are: Private James (Jimmy) Queen...
hi there! ive started my research on my great grandfather, Edward Butler, who was a POW in thailand during the war. ive been okay with finding...
Hi All I've just received my relative's service record from the MOD. ( over a year wait!) and I can see that he was taken prisoner at Singapore in...
Hi i am after finding out about Lance Bombardier John Ernest Armstrong missing Malaya 1942. I have some little information stating that he escaped...
Hello, I'm very new here, I'm a bit confused & I'm hoping someone can help! My grandfather was in the Royal Norfolk Regiment & this is the...
Hello everyone! Apologies if this isn't the done thing, but I was just wondering if anyone might have any information on what my uncle Kirby did...
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Good afternoon This is my second post requesting information on my other grandad. This is what I know so far, any information on where he would...
I am trying to discover the military activities of Osborn. Osborn was born in 1916, worked initially as a farmer and joined the army before the...
My uncle was a POW, after capture in Java in March 1942. Although I have some information about his movements prior to capture, I don't know...
My father, Gunner Basil William Bancroft, service number 1470534, was a FEPOW captured at the fall of Singapore in Feb. 1942. He was initially...
Beginning in 1939, the Royal Navy began requisitioning commercial vessels to serve as auxiliary patrol craft and minesweepers. By December 1941...
Evening all, A long shot, but does anyone have a copy of the following from the IWM? Private Papers of D S Cave Diaries from D S Cave with the...
How a Belfast doctor used Irish to keep WW2 secrets [ATTACH] Dr Frank Murray was an Allied prisoner of war in a Japanese prison camp during...
Looking for information on William Martin (born 1917) who was in the Gordon Highlanders. He was taken prisoner whilst in Singapore. All I know...
Does anyone know the exact location of Saigon Military Cemetery, my uncle was interred here, before being exhumed and reinterred at Kranji War...
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