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Defence of Singapore
Transported ‘Empress of Canada’ via Freetown (West Africa), Cape Town and Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to the Far East. Where at Singapore the guns were unloaded.
Re-typed by son Keith from the original manuscript written by Des Bettany in 1991:
‘On our arrival in Singapore, in November 1941, we entrained up country to Mantin. The unit, the 88th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery became part of the 9th Indian Division, and the three batteries were sent to Ipoh, Alor Star and Kuantan, where the Repulse and Prince of Wales were sunk. Eventually the Battery was moved back over Fraser’s Gap to the West Coast, north of Kuala Lumpur.
We took part in the fights, skirmishes and battles down the Peninsular to Singapore.
After capitulation we were all marched to Changi, after disabling and destroying our guns.’
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