V FORCE Burnett, John Stuart Frederick Andrew Forbes

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Burnett​

• FORENAME

John Stuart Frederick Andrew Forbes​

• UNIT

V Force​

• RANK

Lieutenant + T/Major​

• NUMBER

162694​

• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order,Military Cross​

• PLACE

Burma 1943 (MC) Burma 1944-45 (DSO)​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,attached Gurkha Rifles,Indian Army
from Newmachar,Aberdeenshire
commissioned Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders December 1940
V Force,Burma 1942-45
invalided to UK November 1945
No 17 War Crimes Investigation Unit February 1946
Major 29.6.1946
1 Bn Seaforth Highlanders (2IC) (Major) December 1946
relinquished commission 1.5.1957 (Major H/Lt Colonel)
New Zealand Military Forces
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