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My father was Captain Norman Stokes and was in the Royal Artillery. His regiment was sent to Singapore. My father himself was in hospital for minor surgery and was to follow the regiment in the next boat out. But when the regiment arrived in Singapore, Singapore had just surrendered to the Japanese - so they were all sent to Japanese POW camps where many died.

My father was then a 'spare part' as the only menber of his regiment still in the UK and he spent the war in various places: a fort in the Solent, the Shetland Isles, Cornwall,etc, ending up in Brussells involved with demobbing troops at the end of the war, and was finally demobbed himself. His guardian angel had been working overtime!! He died recently within weeks of his 99th birthday and was a member of his local British Legion branch.

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