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246166 W/Sgt. Osborne Ronald Allan Royal Artillery 27th Field Regiment from:Dudley My father, Ron Allan, served in the Royal Artillery and the Royal Signals. We have only found out recently that he was in India and Burma during 1945 and my cousin informed me that my father had told his brother he was in Changi but never told his own family (wife and children). We are not sure if he was a POW or part of the relief personnel that liberated POW's. We are also not sure if he encountered fighting while in Burma. We have his army records but there is minimum information on them and it has so much code it is difficult to make sense of. We have only just started to look at the history so we are unaware of most avenues of information. My father went to India, being at Bombay on the 2nd of April 1945 and transferred to India Command. On 1st of June 1945 he came under ALFSEA (Allied Land Forces South East Asia) at this point he was granted the War Sevice rank of Sergeant with immediate effect. On 13th of October he was posted to 34 Battery of 27th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, from 31 Battery. On 27th of October 1945 he was granted aaa pay as A1 ?ligo @ RO W/o pm ?? (not sure that is what is written or what it means). On 25th of January 1946 he was granted add pay at Rs 6 shillings per measum for the period 29th Dec to 25th Jan 46 to no 4 Brit transit camp for 28 days. On 21st of Feb 46 he was recorded SOSX/8A on Embarkment from Rangoon for UK. Add to this record.  Related Content: 27th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery Royal Signals Burma & India Campaign Changi Prison Prisoner of War Camp Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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