211174 L/Cpl. John Shrigley British Army Royal Army Medical Corps from:500 Bolton Road, Aspull, Lancashire My father John Shrigley served in India in WW2.
As far as I can recall he enlisted in the summer of 1943. He was in the Royal Army Medical Corps and based in Johore State hospital. At one point he was sent to convalesce in Darjeeling following an operation to replace a fractured skull with a metal plate.
I think that they had to evacuate the patients from the Hospital because the Japanese were advancing on them.
He was also at some point in Rangoon.
He came home in either 1946 or 1947 on the Troopship Empress of Australia, which docked in Liverpool.
I would love to obtain details as to his Army Number, Service Record, etc, but am not sure how to go about it.
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