242435 Sgt. Alexander Jesse Chisholm Taylor British Army 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders from:London Sgt Alexander Taylor & his wife Marjorie (Peggy) & son Douglas were posted to Singapore with the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders in or around 1936. A further son followed in Sep 1937 and a daughter in Oct 1939. The family were evacuated to Bombay in Feb 1942 and he became a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the fall of Singapore in Feb 1942.
He survived & rejoined his family in Bombay following the surrender of Japan in 1945, where he was transferred to the RAOC. He returned to the UK with his children on the SS Chittral in Aug 1947. He settled in Epsom but remained in the army for a further few years serving in Egypt & Germany. He died in 1981.
|