Singapore,1941...5th Searchlight Regt.RA.
Newly-arrived British troops give the 'thumbs up' on the quayside at Singapore, November 1941.
The troops seems to belong to the RA and, some can be identified by their names on the kitbags......
http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs
The second man from the left.....Lance Serjeant William George Rufus Swallow,2035324,DoD.20/12/43,aged 35,with 5 Searchlight Regt. Royal Artillery..Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.......he was from Thornton Heath,Surrey.....was married.
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