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Sandy Sutherland MM Signed Naval Art
Sandy Sutherland MM
A regular soldier who enlisted on 6th June 1934 in the 1st Battalion Royal Scots at Dover. After training he was posted to the 2nd Battalion, then stationed in Lahore in the Punjab. He then saw active service on the North West Frontier. The Battalion was posted to Hong Kong in 1937. He fought in the Battle of Golden Hill on the Mainland and then at Wong Ho Chong Gap in which battle he was awarded the Military Medal. He was taken to Japan as a POW in 1942. After the war he was an instructor on weapons at Glencarse, Sandhurst and finally Dreghorn until in 1953 he rejoined the first Battalion. He served for a year in Korea, then in the Suez Canal Zone, finally returning to Elgin. He left the Army as a CQMS on the 6th June 1956 after exactly 22 years in the regiment.
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Clipped Signature - Sandy Sutherland. Joined the Royal Scots regiment in 1934, serving in Lahore and then Hong Kong from 1937. He won the Military Medal during the fall of Hong Kong, but was taken as a prisoner to Japan for the rest of the war. He rejoined the regiment after the war, retiring in 1956. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
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