Straits Settlements Volunteer Force (SSVF), World War II Changi Prisoner-of-War (POW) Medal Group of 5 to PTE GLENDINNING F. R.
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1939-45
Star, Pacific Star, Defence
Medal, 1939-45 War Medal (1st four medals unnamed)
Efficiency Medal (GVI) Malaya (4188 Pte F Glendinning)
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GLENDINNING F. [Frederick Raymond] ‘Fred’
Efficiency Medal 1940 SSVF
Born: 1902 Harrogate.
Acting Manager, William Jacks & Co Ltd, Beach St, Penang.
WW2 POW - Changi and Sime Rd internee.
Aged 39 in 1942. Wife Annie evacuated.
He was born
in Harrogate, Yorkshire in 1902, the son of Fred Glendinning of the
Malayan Public Works Department (and later State Engineer, Johore) and Annie
Evelyn Scholefield.
Educated at Clare House School, Kent and Bedford School, he joined the London
office of William Jacks and Co. in 1921 and was transferred to Malaya in 1925,
working successively as a sales assistant in Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh and managing
the Penang branch for William Jacks (Malaya) Ltd, merchants.
He had been seconded to manage the Building Supply Department in Singapore when
the Japanese came, and spent 1942-45 in Changi Gaol and Sime Road Camp. After
six months recuperation in England, he returned to Singapore and was appointed
to the board of William Jacks, where he continued his interrupted career until
he took early retirement in 1953, married Margit Jolan Szedmáky and went
to live in Jersey. Fred Glendinning passed away in 1983.
EM Malaya issued 7th February 1940
His
father:
GLENDINNING F. [Fred] PWD FMS from 1902 serving in Telok
Anson, Kuala Pilah, Klang and Johore. State Engineer, Johore 1916-1929. A
keen tennis player and rifle shot. Retired 1929. Spent some time in the Cape SA
then to Guildford, Surrey. Died
17.1.59[84] London
This is wrong, Frederick Raymond Glendinning and Fred Glendinning of William Jacks are two different people. I know this as the latter was my father. Alex Glendinning
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