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Voyage to Singapore

Post 1

Mark E

Dear Len (Snowie)

I have enjoyed reading some of your stories - by enjoyed I mean that I think they are very well written and visual. I was wondering - have you seen this article?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A2050958

It bears a striking resemblance to your own voyage to Singapore, and I wonder if it might have been the same convoy?

With best wishes, Mark


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Post 2

Len (Snowie) Baynes

Dear Mark'

Yes, the 4th Norfolks were in 18th Div., but probably in a different brigade; we were in the 55th. So they were likely to have been in a different convoy.

Apart from that, the timing appears to be wrong, I had kept a diary, and Pearl Harbour and the US entry into the war occurred well after we left Cape Town.

He was also evidently in a different group in Thailand, as his record is quite different from mine.

Many thanks for pointing the article out to me.

Yours Len Baynes


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Post 3

Len (Snowie) Baynes

ps. Sorry for the delay in replying to your message, but I only noticed it for the first time this afternoon.
Len.


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Post 4

Mark E

Dear Len
Thanks for your kind reply.

With best wishes
Mark


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