Messages posted by: Dan Hayes

Hi Kevin & Nic

I have added some of my granddad photos to the following forum if you are interested:

http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/mission-204-special-service-detachment-2.43620/page-6

If you can help with any of the locations or people it would me much appreciated!

Thanks
Dan

Hi Kevin & Nic

Sorry, my grandfathers name was George James Hayes and he was a Lance Corporal (I think) as part of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

I'm fascinated by this mission. I'm in the process of scanning in the photos and will share them asap. They have comments on the back and I'm hoping people might be able to place some of the photos to help piece his story together.

Thanks both

Dan

Hi Kevin

Many thanks for your response - very useful link.

Thanks
Dan

I know this topic has been raised before on this forum, but I am looking to find some more information (and ideally the route) of Special Service Detachment (SSD1) as they retreated from Bura in 1942.

I have recently discovered that my Grandfather joined SSD1 in March 1942 (possibly on convoy WS14) as a ?specialist?, part of the RAMC. He is not in the group photograph of SSD1 in Taunngyi taken on the 3/2/1942, but I do have a photo of him with ?Jumbo? Newman and Col John Milman at the start of their trek. I have also found c.50 other of my grandads photos that were taken during this mission, but I am struggling to place them.

From the information I have gathered to date, I understand they travelled from the Bush Welfare School in Maymo, to Taunngyi, then on to Kengtung and were finally flown out of Kunming in China. However I have read that group retreated to India before being evacuated from China, this would also match my Grandads account he gave before he passed away. Does anyone have any additional information?

There appears to be a lot of information on SSD2 which was obviously a perilous mission (I have read the excellent book ?no surrender in Burma? by Peter Goode), but I am struggling to find an information on SSD1 other than short paragraphs ? any help would be much appreciated.

I am in the process of editing the photgraphs I have and will upload them to the site once complete.