View source for Hope Percy James Gunner 1479517

{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Hope Percy James
|Army number=1479517
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
|Age=(At time of death).  Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted (probably conscripted) into the General Staff Corps 2/9/1939.  Underwent Basic Training - probably at a Primary Training Centre.  transferred to the Royal Artillery.  Posted to the 89th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment.  (HQ 35 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment).  Proceeded to Port of Embarkation 30/10/1941.  Serial 31549.  Embarked 9/11/1941.  Served Malaya.  Reported Missing 15/2/1942 (the date of the surrender of Singapore).  Taken Prisoner of War (189/RA(LAA) Rec/43)  Returned to the UK.  Repatriated Y List 11/10/1945 (LAA/CAS/HQ). Discharged under Paragraph 390 (xvi) of the 1940 King's Regulations 2/4/1946.  Confirmed 29/4/1946.  (99/7/46 Date amended 164).  P/A No. 1 C.R.U. (46/NO/CRO/III 67/46) (14/3/46).  Presumed Y List 10/4/1946 (61/ICRU/III 91/46).  Demobilised.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet ascertained.
|Home address=No family information yet. 
}}

Much of the information on this Page was extracted from the soldier’s Royal Artillery Tracer Card – held on Ancestry.co.uk.