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Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
2nd Battalion
&
Plymouth Argylls
History
Compiled by Ron Taylor
With help from:- ‘Moon Over Malaya’
by Jonathan Moffatt and Audrey Holmes McCormick
Andrew Snow, Thailand Burma Railway Centre
Into Captivity
15th February 1942 - 15th August 1945
Singapore surrendered 15th February 1942
In the above photo Cyril Wild, on the left, had thrown the White Flag of surrender down on the ground and it was picked up by a Japanese soldier.
Before the surrender ships, small boats and even canoes were used to escape Malaya and Singapore, not many being successful, many dying in the attempt. Sixty Argylls were captured after escaping Singapore in Sumatra or in Java.
Eight Argylls escaped Padang in the Dutch steamer, ‘Rooseboom’, which sailed for Ceylon. It was sunk nearing Ceylon, killing seven of the Argylls.
After Singapore surrendered, the Japanese gave instructions for the now PoWs to walk to Changi where a camp would be set up. The civilians were to be housed in the Changi Jail.
The walk from Tyersall to Changi was about 15 mile, but the Argylls still had some some cars left and used them to transport the Argylls to Changi accompanied by the pipers playing.
There was to follow three and a half years of hard labour induced by the Japanese with beatings if work was not carried out quickly enough. With barbaric treatment causing unnecessary deaths, these years were categorised by my father as a ‘Living Nightmare’.
Death Roll
Malaya and Singapore PoWs
15th February 1942 - 15th August 1945
Please click on the  next to each date below for further information
The Plymouth Argylls Service/No. begins ‘PLY’
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Date
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Name
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Service/No
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1942/02/16
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Lightfoot, Norman Anthony
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PLY/X100429
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1942/02/16
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Anderson, Archibald Dickie
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PLY/X 1565
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1942/02/16
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Boyd, David Wilson
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PLY/X 3052
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1942/02/16
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Davis, Sidney John
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PLY/X3902
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1942/02/16
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Gibbons, Thomas William
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PLY/X 100144
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1942/02/16
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Holland, Arnold
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PLY/X2119
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1942/02/16
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Leaver, Francis Samuel
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PLY/X2492
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1942/02/16
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Young, Robert Alexander Victor
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PLY/X2214
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1942/02/16
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McKillen, Robert
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PLY/X 1456
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1942/02/16
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McNamara, Francis Frank
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PLY/X 100129
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1942/02/16
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Passmore, George William Henry
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PLY/X 871
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1942/02/16
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Rogers, Albert
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PLY/X 100021
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1942/02/16
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Roy, Peter
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PLY/X100017
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1942/02/16
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Skinner, James
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PLY/X1020
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1942/02/16
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Wallace, Thomas
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PLY/X100720
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1942/02/16
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Williams, Stanley
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PLY/X 100178
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1942/02/16
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Western, George Edward
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PLY/X 1976
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1942/02/18
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McQueen, Robert
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2979579
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1942/02/18
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Buckley, Robert
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3322739
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1942/02/18
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Corr, Peter
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3323224
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1942/02/19
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Brown, Cyril Charles John
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PLY/X 2584
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1942/02/21
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Brodie, Douglas Scott
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2979786
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1942/02/22
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McKernon, Thomas
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3130864
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1942/02/22
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Locke, Owen Thomas Dunn
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PLY/X 101541
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1942/02/22
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Black, William
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2984349
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1942/02/25
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McKay, John
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2992171
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1942/02/26
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Wilcox, William
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2977086
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1942/02/28
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Docherty, Robert
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2982155
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1942/02/28
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Graney, Morris William
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PLY/X 100038
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1942/03/01
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Graham, John
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2979859
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1942/03/01
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McKnight, James Hughes
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2986112
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1942/03/01
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Groom, William Henry
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2979769
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1942/03/01
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Mowat, William
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2979632
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1942/03/01
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Paterson, George Thompson
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2979817
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1942/03/01
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Scanlan, Edward
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2979681
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1942/03/02
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Morris, Richard
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PLY/X1808
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1942/03/02
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MacDonald, Charles Angus
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56135
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1942/03/02
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Fudge, Albert Edward
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PLY/22305
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1942/03/02-1942/03/03
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Pendreigh, William
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2987012
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1942/03/02-1942/03/03
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Blackwood, Fredericic Michael Ponsonby
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74706
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1942/03/02-1942/03/03
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Bain, John
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2977098
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1942/03/02-1942/03/03
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McDonald, William (Willie)
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2979495
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1942/03/02-1942/03/03
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Hamilton, Robert
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2979694
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1942/03/02-1942/03/03
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Hardie, Albert
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2979976
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1942/03/02-1942/03/03
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Gray, John
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3322704
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1942/03/03
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Taylor, George Donald
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279794
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1942/03/03
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Bentley, Aubrey Gordon
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2572163
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1942/03/04
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Phillips, John
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807088
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1942/03/05
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Davidson, John
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3132101
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1942/03/05
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Shingler, Frank
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2990757
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1942/03/08
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Gwynne, John
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2979264
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1942/03/12
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Ferry, Thomas Davis
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2979883
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1942/03/14
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Anderson, Robert William
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2979594
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1942/03/16
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Ewen, William James
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3132866
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1942/03/18
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Maughan, George
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3322838
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1942/03/25
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Gibson, Norman Morrison
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2979979
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1942/03/27
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Kane, Alexander
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3312150
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1942/03/27
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Benny, Hugh Kelso
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2979605
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1942/03/31
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MacInnes, Alexander
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2986501
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1942/03/31
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McLean, John
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2985962
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1942/03/31
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Sully, Samuel Thomas
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PLY/X3775
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1942/03/31
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Hornby, Edward
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PLY/X 1301
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1942/04/01
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Steele, Ronald
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4124675
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1942/04/01
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Ross, Arthur
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2978768
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1942/04/02
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McArdle, Michael
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2979810
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1942/04/03
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McMillan, John
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2992030
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1942/04/03
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McMillan, Alexander Mcdougall
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2985819
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1942/04/09
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Rutter, Sydney
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3322879
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1942/04/09
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Ralston, James
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2985536
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1942/04/10
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Scott, Hugh
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3323262
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1942/04/11
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Davenport, Duncan
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2986637
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1942/04/14
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Elliott, William
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3321544
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1942/04/16
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Haddon, Stanley
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3322795
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1942/04/21
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Thomson, Joseph
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2986576
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1942/04/22
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Gibson, James Mcrae
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2982987
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1942/05/01
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Sloan, Hugh Cairn Duff
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2979692
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1942/05/13
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Wilson, Samuel Douglas
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2982154
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1942/05/14
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Hayes, George Albert
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4268688
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1942/05/23
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Allan, John
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3130917
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1942/06/01
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Marshall, James
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2978565
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1942/06/01
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Smith, George
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2979771
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1942/06/01
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Embleton, John
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2979243
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1942/06/08
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Cooper, Charles Henry
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2982011
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1942/06/15
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Hunter, William
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2819674
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1942/06/16
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Colliston, John Joseph
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190254
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1942/06/23
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Trail, George
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2979849
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1942/06/24
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Lapsley, John Macdonald
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67451
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1942/07/09
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Orr, Robert Alexander
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177904
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1942/07/19
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Stevenson, William
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2987224
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1942/07/21
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Day, Alfred Hogarth
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2973393
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1942/07/28
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Christie, Peter Watson
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3323405
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1942/08/01
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Wakenshaw, Thomas Edward
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3322908
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1942/08/07
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Holmes, Peter
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2981610
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1942/09/13
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Stewart, Patrick
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2979752
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1942/09/23
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Mills, David Henry
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PLY/X 100120
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1942/10/13
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McGhee, Robert
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2990876
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1942/10/31
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Fletcher, Archibald Mcdonald
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2979378
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1942/11/30
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Davies, Roy Malcolm
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PLY/X 2573
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1942/12/13
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Fletcher, Donald
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2978776
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1942/12/18
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Ramsay, James Rintoul
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2979990
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1943/07/29
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Fairless, Walter Harold
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2982014
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1943/12/26
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Graham, Robert
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2990015
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1944/01/15
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Taylor, Reginald Edward
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2966508
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1944/03/02
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Edmunds, William
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PLY/X203
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1944/06/01
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Warner, Joseph Albert
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2978966
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1944/06/11
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Moore, James
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CH/X3397
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1944/06/21
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Fotheringham, Alexander
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2975232
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1944/07/06
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Crooks, Aidan Augustine
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3321547
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1944/09/27
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Graham, William
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2990345
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1945/03/11
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Corney, Clarence Henry
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PLY/X 1870
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1945/04/04
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Reynolds, Leonard Jack
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PLY/X874
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1945/04/09
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Ashcroft, William John
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2982162
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1945/05/27
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Healey, Gordon Allenby
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PLY/X 2213
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1945/07/16
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Smith, Norman Henry
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3319055
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1945/08/02
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Eastham, Robert
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3855072
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1945/08/04
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Lomax, Samuel
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PLY/X3254
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1945/08/09
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Hill, Jack Alfred
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PLY/X100190
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