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Hi All, Got the book. Canadians on Radar in South East Asia 1941-45 by Angus Hamilton, Canadian Radar History Project, 1998. He lists sixteen known Canadians on RDF (Radar) in Singapore / Indonesia when the war in the Pacific began. For future users, with some information from other sources: AC2 Rus...

Thank You Temujin, Much more information that I had before, but still not clear what happened to Cpl Pink. But he was last reported before the general surrender of the NEI, so less likely to be a prisoner than killed in action. It does confirm what I suspected, that Cpl Pink was a radar (575 AMES), ...

Hi All, I have reached the entry for Corporal Walter Steele Pink R18057 . This airman has always intrigued me. He is list as missing in fighting with ground forces March 7, 1942, fighting Japanese soldiers 30 miles west of Batavia, NEI. His trade is given as radio mechanic. Is it possible he was an ...

Thank You again Temujin, It's not often I see a possible error in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site, and I don't assume anything unless I can check it. It's too easy publish something that then gets quoted as fact. (It's what I am trying to do, compare the records on the Internet with the ...

Hi Again georgetanksherman, Some more details. June 23, 1943 Sgt J. Alexander, R/52619, RCAF, Merriton, Ontario, Canada Armourer. Death by natural causes June 23, 1943 413 Sqn. Sgt J. Alexander RCAF was found unconscious on the runway of RAF Koggala, Ceylon and died of a fractured skull (www.rafcomm...

Hi georgetanksherman, I have noted temujin posted the following: February 15, 1943 F/O R.S.E. Greenway, J/6399, RCAF, Simpson, Saskatchewan, Canada (Pilot) KIA, Navigator, Target - Trappes, France, 156 Squadron. Halifax aircraft #LK 875, missing during a night attack against Trappes. I have this los...

Hi Wartimes, I have reached the entry in They Shall Grow Not Old for P/O Roy Barrington Keedwell, who died in hospital on or near February 11, 1942, in Palembang, Sumatra, either from wounds or injuries. TSGNO gives his serial number as 'J15227' which is in the range for RCAF officers promoted overs...

Hi All,

My Apologies. I misread the article. He was engaged to be married.

I will try not to jump like that again.

Again, sorry to have caused a fuss over just a few words, and Many Thanks for setting the record straight before it gets published..

Paul
Wetaskiwin

Hi George, Some background, from the chronology. July 1944 4-5 Immediately following the TALLBOY attack on the V-1 storage caves at St. Leu D'Esserent it was bombed by a further 231 Lancasters and 15 Mosquitos which destroyed the access to the site. Within 2 days the number of V-1 launches is reduce...

Hi, Flight Sergeant Horning was killed Jan. 14. 1942, in the loss of a #22 OTU Welllington DV481. At the Find a Grave website here is a reference in a paper (from Dundas, Ontario?) that he had recently been married to "a Miss Harding, of Stratford-On-Avon [England]", but there is no reference to thi...