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L/Bdr. John Hanson Sinclair Scott
British Army 125th Anti Tank Regiment Royal Artillery
from:Sunderland
My uncle John Scott was 22 and serving for the British Army in India when he was captured by the Japanese army and moved to Camp 2 in Thailand in June 1942. Three years later he was moved to Fukuoka, Japan (exact camp unknown) and soon after liberated by the Australian Army.
They took him to Australia and set sail on the HMS Implacable to Canada before coming home to Sunderland.
In one the letters he tells of some of his fellow men staying in Canada and marrying Canadian girls. He states "that's a silly thing to do!"