Cpl. Harry Fuke
British Army 7th Battalion Leicstershire Regiment
from:Leicester
My Dad, Harry Fuke served with the 7th. Battalion Leicestershire Regiment during WW2. I have recently received his army records from MOD Glasgow. There is very little detail of his service from arriving in India.
He disembarked in India (Bombay) 24th Oct 1942 from the Capetown Castle troop ship. Posted to (Special Forces Reg.) crossed out and HQ 14th. Infantry Brigade added. His fitness was downgraded to B1/T from A1 on 5th Nov 1943 - I don’t know if this would preclude him from frontline duty?
Now the strange bit in just one line as written on his record: "Proe. On posting to Force 136 S.O.S. to X (i)." (Record shows he was promoted to Corporal). I have since found out that Force 136 was part of SOE. So I’m now very confused as to where to go from here. My father use to tell me stories of driving trucks behind enemy lines and burying the contents at given map co-ordinates. But he did not pass a truck test until 1945.
I moved to Australia in 1968 and we never met or spoke again I only have a few memories of things my father spoke of and unfortunately after he died my mother threw all his “war year’s” photo’s and papers away.
