Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private M. T. Scott, Manchester Regiment, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War at the Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Malaya, second clasp loose on riband, as issued (4611763 Pte. M. T. Scott. Manch. R.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (5) £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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Michael Thomas Scott was born on 10 December 1915. Living at Stalybridge, Cheshire, he enlisted into the Manchester Regiment on 16 January 1935. He served overseas in Egypt from October 1935 to January 1938; in Palestine from January to September 1938; and in Singapore from September 1938. Scott was captured by the Japanese with the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 and was initially held at Changi. He remained a Prisoner of War of the Japanese for the remainder of the War, and was held in camps at Singapore, whose leaders were Captain Edgar, R.E., (13 March - 10 August 1942) and Captain McGhee, Gurkha Regiment (25 July 1944 - 8 August 1945). On his repatriated P.O.W. medical on 2 February 1946, it was noted he had suffered, ‘shrapnel wounds, ulcers, malnutrition and beri-beri.’

Transferred to the Reserve on 29 September 1946, Scott re-enlisted as a Bandsman in the Manchester Regiment on 21 February 1947, becoming a Private in November 1948. He served in the B.A.O.R. from July 1948 until February 1955, and in FARELF (Malaya) from May 1955 to June 1957, and subsequently in the Military Provost Staff Corps from November 1950 to December 1951. Transferred from the Manchester Regiment to the Royal Scots Fusiliers as a Fusilier Bandsman in November 1955 and back to the Manchester Regiment in January 1958, he then transferred to the 5/7 Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (T.A.) Band in July 1958. He was discharged on 25 July 1959, and died on 19 August 1981.

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