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An extract from my father's (RAF) diaries: Sunday 23rd February 1947 "...The first fortnight of this demob leave went very well...Went down to Burley for tea this afternoon and found Joan very groggy, waited while John took her to the B’mouth nursing home and while he was driving back a son was...

The 2nd Battalion was the Garrison Battalion at Kuantan in the Malay Peninsula in 1940. The only infantry battalion in Kuantan, it was put to a myriad of tasks in a widely dispersed area. Just before the Japanese offensive, it had been milked twice to assist forming new battalions. When the...

Reference: WO 373/47/271 Description: Name Axtell, John Harry Westwood Rank: Lieutenant, Temporary Major Service No: EC-976 Regiment: 2/18 Royal Garhwal Rifles Theatre of Combat or Operation: Middle East (Special Operations) Award: Military Cross Date of announcement in London Gazette: 21...

Lt. John Westwood-Axtell John was my first cousin; we were two of the four grandsons of Lt.-Col. Walter Edward Maxfield, D.S.O., 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles. His father, also Lt. (Temp. Major) John Harry Westwood-Axtell, M.C., had been a prisoner of the Japanese in Burma, with the 2/18 Royal...