WWII POW Straits Settlements Volunteer Force (SSVF) L/Cpl Guy E. Turner, Medal Group 6

Straits Settlements Volunteer Force (SSVF) Medal Group of 6 awarded to
80085 L/CPL GUY E. TURNER S.S.V.F.

Reverse of Medal Group

L / Cpl Guy Elliot Turner SSVF

1939/45 Star, Pacific Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, 1953 Coronation Medal (all unnamed)

Efficiency Medal “Malaya”, with additional service bar – L/Cpl G E Turner SSVF

BRIEF RESEARCH

Born 5^th November 1907, son of EG Turner CIE, 8 B Hayne Rd, Beckenham, Kent.

Married in 1936, Phyllis Joyce Jeremy, daughter of FW Jeremy of Greenways, Bromley.

Educated Haileybury 1921-1926, St John’s College Cambridge, BA History.

Malayan civil service 1930. Enlisted in the SSVF. POW Malaya

Retired to the UK and lived at 22 Rochester Avenue, Bromley, Kent.  
Died in Devon 4 Jul 1984.

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Haileybury Registry 1922

Malaya Civil Service List

World War 2 Prisoner-of-War (POW) Record

WW2 Japanese POW from 15 Feb 42 to 2 Sep 45, Camp Thailand

WW2 Japanese POW Record

Name of POW Camp Leader in S'pore Gen. Percival

Record of the award of the 1953 Coronation Medal

Last Will (1975)

Codicil made on 7 Feb 1978

Second codocil made on 28 Nov 1982

Passed away on 4 Jul 1984

Captain G.V. Neubronner, SSVF and Rifle Brigade. WWI and WWII S'pore Japanese POW Efficiency Decoration Medal Group of 7.

Reverse of Medal Group

WWI Medal (S/27113 PTE. G.V. NEUBRONNER. R/F. BRIG.)
WWI Victory Medal ((S/27113 PTE. G.V. NEUBRONNER. R/F. BRIG.)
WWII Star (unnamed). Pacific Star (unnamed), Defence Medal (unnamed), War Medal (unnamed),
Efficiency Decoration GVI (CAPT G.V. NEUBRONNER)
[Dress Miniature and Full Size Medals Group]

Reference: In Oriente Primus, pg 247 and 248

NEUBRONNER G.V. (GuyVivian) Efficiency Decoration (ED)

Born 1897 KL. WW1 on Western Front. Incorporated Accountant: Assistant Evatt & Co. NTS Building, S'pore. Lieutenant SSVF 2 I/C Intelligent Platoon, POW Singapore to Thailand. Wife Olga [died in captivity, Sumatra]. He remarried 1948 Eleonar Mary Hitchon at S'pore. Post-war captain SVC. Left for UK. Wife "Nell' died Oct 1954 at Reigate. A member of BAM till 1973. Died 21 Mar 1974 Reigate, Surrey.

Wife: Neubronner Olga Mary

CMB SRN. Colonial Nursing Sister - Senior Superintendant, St. John Ambulance Brigade, S'pore. Padang, Sumatra internee. Died in captivity 22 Mar 1945 [39] Muntok.

Captain Philip S Sherwood, Kedah Volunteer Force. A Very Rare World War II POW Medal Group.

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

1937 Coronation Medal ( FMGG 2/7/1937)

Efficiency Decoration “Malaya” - named Capt P S Sherwood KVF

1943 Kedah Accession Medal

Captain Philip S Sherwood, Kedah Volunteer Force

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

1937 Coronation Medal ( FMGG 2/7/1937)

Efficiency Decoration “Malaya” - named Capt P S Sherwood KVF

1943 Kedah Accession Medal

POW Singapore 15th February, 1942. Held in camps in Malaya and Thailand

Born 20/1/1900. FMSVF attached 20^th ABOD, IAOC.

Father : Samuel Robert Sherwood, Mother : Marie Elizabeth

Occupation: Planter

Origin: Playford, Ipswich,Suffolk

NOK: Mrs Audrey F Sherwood, Kilworth House, Northfields, Stamford, Lincs. She was evacuated on the Empire Star, 12^th February,1942.

In 1952 he was planting on Dublin Estate, Karangan, Kedah. In 1969 he was living in Farnham, Surrey.

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Only 4 ED’s have ever been issued to the Kedah Volunteer Force:

Lt Col M E Barrett DCM

Capt J L Cowans

Capt A T B M Edgar

Capt P S Sherwood