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Re: Taynuilt, Highland Light Infantry
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 15 October 24 11:49 BST (UK) »
Hi Elwyn,
Yes I get what you are saying.
It's a long story, I never knew my father he was born in 1906 died 1961... I have done an amazing amount of research & found evidence of his time in the Merchant Navy, I have a, discharge document from 1936/37.. My father spent a, couple of years in New Zealand where he met & married a girl, they split up, (eventually divorced) & he came back to the UK around 1938.. I found a record of his 2nd Marraige this states he was in the HLI & that's where I learnt about his time there.
I found out about the Japanese POW  camp in a newspaper article.. It was a story about his death on 1961...

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Re: Taynuilt, Highland Light Infantry
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 15 October 24 11:58 BST (UK) »
Highland One,

If you search on his name in the National Archives or on FindMyPast's military catalogue, you should turn up the casualty report(s) which list him as either missing in action or confirmed as a POW. From there you will have his unit and his Army number. The latter will allow you to get his service record. That will fill in many, if not all, of the gaps concerning his service.

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Re: Taynuilt, Highland Light Infantry
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 15 October 24 14:05 BST (UK) »
The HLI and Royal Scots Fusiliers merged in 1959 to become the Royal Highland Fusiliers, so if the source of info for his being in the HLI is a newspaper article from 1961, I would suggest it is entirely possible he was in fact in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, particularly since it seems the HLI were not in action against Japanese forces, whereas the Fusiliers were.

Correction, I just read the post above again, and I see the POW camp was from the newspaper article, but the HLI part was from the marriage register, so maybe not.
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Re: Taynuilt, Highland Light Infantry
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 15 October 24 14:25 BST (UK) »
Hi Albufera32
A bit of confusion here..
Sorry but the newspaper report was giving a little history of my father's earlier life.. Quote.. His decline started in the hell of a Jap POW camp,  when he was liberated he was partly paralysed.

He wasnt in the services in 1959. He divorced his 2nd wife by the late 1940s, met & married my Mother by 1952 in London, came back to Scotland by 1957, he died in 1961.... A complicated life I know !
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