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This story was submitted to the Peoples War website by Karolina Kopiec from the 大象传媒 GMR Action Desk on behalf of Mr Edwin Coram and has been added to the site with his permission.

I left Jersey in 1940, came to Stockport and got married in 1948. During war I went to India 鈥� all over Mumbai, Calcutta, etc. In 1947 I went to Singapore and Malaysia, where I was helping to look after 2000 prisoners. The friendship amongst the chaps in the regiment was brilliant. I was down in Lincoln in a liberty truck, when this fellow was sick and lost his teeth. We looked but we couldn鈥檛 find them!

Going to India 鈥� the trip took 28 days in troop ship. Indian boat called the Chikra. I had to make sure I was on the top deck; if you got torpedoed there would be no chance of surviving for those down below. From India to Singapore I was in another troop ship 鈥淒ilwara鈥�.
I came back from Singapore to England in the Kotabary.
I was away for 3 陆 years. We were called the forgotten army because there was so much more interest in European fighting than Burmese, where I was. It made us feel slighted because we were so far away from home. They got all the support and the attention. However the people of Stockport looked after us when we came back, even though we were from Jersey. They put us up in Stockport Sunday school till we found accommodation. So that鈥檚 why I came back to Stockport and have never left.

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