Captain J E Lawson

Microfilm of his ts memoir (274pp) describing his service in the ranks with the Home Guard, the Royal Corps of Signals, and SOE, 1940 - 1945, including: his childhood in Sunderland; training as an engineer and a wages clerk with BSA Guns in Birmingham; too young to serve at the beginning of the war he joined the LDV in the summer of 1940 and later the RCS in 1942; after training he served with HQ VIII Corps at Taunton before volunteering for parachute training and then for SOE; after training at Eton Manor, Oxford and the Special Training School at Haifa, he was parachuted into Greece, joining Colonel Tom Barnes at Agrausla in December 1944 and becoming embroiled in the Greek Civil War; evacuated from Greece he joined No 1 Special Forces as a Signals Instructor at Brindisi, Italy, but after leave in the UK was posted to India; joining Force 136 he was dropped into Siam being present at the surrender of the Japanese troops in August 1945 prior to crossing into French Indo China to rescue French civilians and to escort Japanese War Criminals.

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