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Lt. Peter Maurice Threlfall
British Army 2nd Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
In 1939 Peter Threlfall joined the Cambridgeshire Regiment.
In 1940 he was selected for officer training and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in July 1940 and transferred to 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment.
In August 1941 his Battalion moved to Galashiels for further training.
There he met his future wife Elizabeth Aitkin Todd, who was a house matron at St Trinians school under Headmistress C Fraser Lee. The School had moved from Dalkeith.
In December 1941 Peter was promoted to Lieutenant.
He married Elizabeth in Edinburgh in January 1942 and Colonel Festing attended the ceremony.
Shortly afterwards they sailed for Madagascar to capture the island. Then on to South Africa.
The Battalion arrived in India 1943 and joined up with General Slim to be part of the 14th Army fighting in India and Burma.
In September it was was attached to 33ed India corps.
On 15th of November 1945 Peter disembarked Carlisle with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
On the 16th he was released from the Army.