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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 4596" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Cartwright </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Peter Baxter Stewart </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>397839 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>21st March 1953 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>24 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Cheras Road Christian Cemetery (Military Annex),Kuala Lumpur,Selangor,West Malaysia Row 20 Grave 1110 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Scots Fusiliers</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Ayrshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 29.3.1929, India</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father Major Francis Ernest Hadgraft Cartwright (M.B.E.) (1896-1966)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mother Lillian May Bright (nee Stewart) (1906-1976) (resided 9 Belmont Crescent, Ayr)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>drowned Malaya </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/p-cartwright.35584/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/35/35584-bff0de4cc03a7506417d9ebb82cdceba.jpg?1623071395" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/p-cartwright-grave.35583/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/35/35583-99d873b8e3ed374d3c9151d9ad28dff1.jpg?1623071393" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Lieut. Peter Cartwright, RSF, died on 21 March 1953 when on a training exercise with the SAs in Malaya. He died as one might have expected in an effort to rescue three comrades who got into difficulties when swimming in full kit in a disused open tin mine at Sungei Besi, which was used by the SAS for training. Lieut. Cartwright was a strong swimmer, but must have struck his head when he plunged into the water, for he failed to surface. All four in training were drowned.</span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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