CPL SIMPSON Harold James Swaysland FMSVF, Malaya Efficiency Medal, Changi POW Group of 7

Efficiency Medal (Malaya) Medal Group of 7 to 7136 CPL SIMPSON H.J.S.

Corporal H. J. S. Simpson FMSVF, Agriculture Officer 1931 to 1950s.

1939/45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal, Defence Medal

Coronation Medal

EM”Malaya” with bar – Cpl Harold J Simpson FMSVF

Malayan Medal – Harold James Simpson 1954

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SIMPSON H.J.S. [Harold James Swaysland] Bsc. Born 1907 Streatham, London. Educated Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon and London University [Wye College]. To Malaya 1931 as Agriculture Field Officer Federated Malay States (FMS) Perak North. By 1934 State Agriculture Officer, Pahang. Married Mary Johnson McLintock Feb 1939 Glasglow. By 1940 State Agriculture Officer, Selangor.

Cpl 7136 FMSVF POW Singapore: Changi and Blakang Mati. Mary ‘May’ evacuated Jan 1942 to Glasglow Jun 1942. She Joined WVS [Women Volunteer Service]. Her parents at IWM. Returned to Malaya in 1946.

He was awarded the Efficiency Medal in 1948. State Agriculture Officer, Perak into the 1950s. Daughter Tricia born on 1948 in Penang. Simpson H.J.S. died on 1 Nov 1993.