Jim Phillips' Certificate of Service Book for the Regular Army, 1939, cover [image 1 of 3]
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Title page of Jim Phillips' Certificate of Service Book for the Regular Army, 1939 [image 2 of 3]
Page from Jim Phillips' Certificate of Service Book for the Regular Army, 1939 [image 3 of 3]

Description

Jim Phillips joined the South Wales Borderers in 1939. After the majority of Jim's comrades were lost fighting in Iraq the remaining Borderers joined a section of the King's Own Regiment to take the small Greek Island of Leros. But their presence was discovered and the surviving soldiers were captured and transported to Germany as prisoners of war.

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