- SURNAME
Stibbe
- FORENAME
Philip Godfrey
- UNIT
Royal Sussex Regiment,attached 13 Bn King's Regiment (Liverpool)
- RANK
Lieutenant
- NUMBER
- 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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