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CSM. Reginald George Albert Cape
British Army 1/5th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Spondon, Derbyshire
Reg Cape of Spondon, Derbyshire, enlisted into the Sherwood Foresters in 1937. He fought in France with the BEF then with the 1/5th Battalion when it was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Singapore. He was in Prisoner Working Battalion No 8, 4 Group and worked on the Burma Railway. On 1st of October 1945 he was evacuated from Rangoon on SS Chiteral. He later joined 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire and later the Sherwood Foresters Regiment as a Territorial and served with them until 1974.