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| 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
BRIEF RESEARCH (Page 301 – In Oriente Primus)
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.
