British WW2 casualty Paybooks
Article about: I've posted these elsewhere but I thought a thread showing my casualty paybooks in chronological order with a write up of each may be of interest, any thoughts or observations please feel fr
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His father had remarried (Andrews mother had died when he was young) so after the fathers death he was in a house with his now widowed step Mother and the relative I spoke to thinks, not surprisingly, that their relationship may not have been good
I wonder how he was affected by his service, he had been in a local Yeomanry unit where all the men would have been very close, when they went in to action he was taken to safety and his unit, almost to a man, was taken by the Japanese and suffered a hellish captivity with many dying. Did he maybe feel he had let them down, did he feel shame seeing the families of his comrades, when the survivors returned and he saw them around the area did he feel a bit of an outsider - he did nothing wrong but he was a Sergeant so probably felt a duty to protect - I could be overthinking it but it can't have been easy.
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I definitely agree with your thoughts on this. As a Sergeant I’d imagine he would have felt like he could have helped ‘his boys’ if he was there and probably would have suffered a degree of survivors guilt.
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