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Quarry at Batu Pahat
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Four of the Signallers having a spell in the quarry at Batu Pahat, Malaya, 1941
Left to right:
1) NX67449 - JOHNSON, Robert William (Togo), Cpl. - HQ Company, Signals Platoon
2) NX47487 - McLEAN, Kevin Noel, Pte. - HQ Coy. Sig. Pl. (leaning on shovel)
3) NX47492 - NEWMAN, Ronald (Snooks), Pte. - HQ Coy. Sig. Pl. (with chunkel)
4) NX46914 - BROWN, Alan Keith, Pte. - HQ Coy. Sig. Pl. Doi Train Koncoyta (Cardiac Beri Beri, Dysentery)
(or possibly NX30302 - McNAB, James Alistair (Jimmy), L/Cpl. - HQ Company, Signals Platoon)
A copy of this photo appeared in a Weekend Magazine supplement, in the The Northern Daily Leader on 18/11/2000. The caption read as follows:
"Young and fit: Soldiers preparing a weapons point in Tamworth. Three of the four men were named: second from left Kevin Newman, Ron Newman and bottom right Alan Brown."
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