238285 Capt. John Cottam "Jock" Moss British Indian Army from:Guildford/Godalming John Moss was working for Britsh American Tobacco in Indian when the war started. He joined the Indian Army, RCS (because he was principally a pacifist) and was posted to Malaya. He married Joyce Alison Blunn (d.1997), in K.L in November 1941. (She and her mother escaped to Indian by sea.)
By February 1942 John Moss was in Singapore when it fell. He spent time in Changhi and was then shipped to Formosa. Latterly, shipped to ?Okinawa and then to Mukden, mainland China. Due to his ill-health was flown out c.August 1945.
He brought back six editions of "Raggle Taggle", the Shirakawa prison camp magazine, parts of which were later published. He recuperated in India and then returned to the UK.
He worked at George Payne & Co., for then St Clements Fosch & Cross (printers), Registrar Sutton's Hospital, Charterhouse Square, London. He became a Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers before retiring. He died in Chertsey after an illness.
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