CHINDITS 1943 Stibbe, Philip Godfrey

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Stibbe ​

• FORENAME

Philip Godfrey ​

• UNIT

Royal Sussex Regiment,attached 13 Bn King's Regiment (Liverpool) ​

• RANK

Lieutenant ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Mention in Despatches ​

• PLACE

Burma 1943 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 20.7.1921 Leicester​

educated Neville Holt and Mill Hill Schools​

educated Merton College,Oxford​

Royal Sussex Regiment 1940​

OC 7 Platoon,5 Column​

WIA and POW 31.3.1943 Hintha,Burma​

liberated 29.4.1945 Rangoon​

graduated Merton College,Oxford postwar​

teacher and headmaster postwar​

married Joy Thornton 1956 (3 children)​

memoir "Return via Rangoon : A Young Chindit Survives the Jungle and Japanese​

Captivity" (1994)​

died 17.1.1997​

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