born March 1905 Barmouth,Merionethshire
enlisted Royal Welch Fusiliers (Regular Army) 3.12.1923
service number 4185353
Depot,RWF 9.12.1923
2 Bn RWF 12.8.1924
1 Bn RWF 2.10.1925
Army Reserve 21.11.1933
mustered at Wrexham 2.10.1939
8 Bn RWF 6.1.1940
9 Independent Company 15.5.1940
1 Special Service Bn 10.11.1940
1 Commando 4.3.1941
204 Military Mission,India Command (China) 17.3.1942
transferred to Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 7.3.1943
142 Commando Company (Chindits) 1943
discharged in rank of WO1 to a commission 13.12.1943
Emergency Commission as 2Lt Indian Army Ordnance Corps 14.12.1943
posted COD Agra 16.1.1944
returned to UK 11.9.1945
Lieutenant,Royal Army Ordnance Corps
service number P353122
released from military service at date not known
died September 1974
photo courtesy of his son Kevin O'Marah
taken in India about 1943
