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Maj. John Stanley White
British Army 29th Kent Searchlight Regiment, 468 Searchlight Bt Royal Artillery (TA)
from:78 Kings Drive, Surbiton, Surrey
John White was stationed on South Ronaldsay with 313 Searchlight Battery in 1943, and then as CO of 468 Searchlight Battery in 1944. These batteries were two of the three searchlight batteries of 29th (Kent) Searchlight Regiment RA (TA). In 1945 we know that he was in Belgium and then in Lower Saxony. He contracted TB while he was in Germany, had half a lung removed, and was invalided out of the Army in 1946.