Pte. Alfred Raymond Mason
Army Service No. 466698
Portfolio
Enlisted:
Enlisted 03.06.1942.
Embodied and Joined 16.07.1942.
Regiments:
Cadbury’s Bournville Home Guard 1941/42
South Staffordshire Regiment 03.06.1942-30.11.1943
Wiltshire Regiment 01.12.1943
Somerset Light Infantry 31.12.1943-03.10.1944
Royal Berkshire Regiment 04.10.1944-22.04.1947
Saw Action:
In the Arakhan with the 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry Regiment.
7th Indian Division. (Golden Arrow.)
With the 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
from Kohima through to Toungoo.
Testimonial:
Military Conduct: Exemplary
Testimonial: This soldier has been employed in general duties, and has done
very well. He is honest, clean, and sober. He is a good boxer.
Discharged:
Transferred to the Devonshire Regiment 08.05.1947
and was discharged 26.03.1949 after 7 years service.
Battalion Boxer:
Which Reads - Back from the army boxing championships 1947. Taken at Brock
Barracks Reading Berkshire, outside the billets army huts.
Pte. Mason In Civvies:
Which Reads - Taken at Darjeeling in the hills Tea plantations April 1945. Sent there
for recuperation after being wounded in the head in Burma on the bank of
the Irrawaddy River 28 February 1945.
Pte. Mason In Navy Uniform:
Which Reads - A little story attached to this photograph. As you can see
I am wearing a Navy outfit genuine sailors’ uniform. I was in hospital
in Calcutta with Dysentery and you need to take your medicine every two
hours, just
like drinking chalk, anyway I used to climb over the gate to go and see
my Anglo/Indian girlfriend Stella, so they took away all my clothes to
stop me, yes you’ve guessed it, I borrowed my navy friends clothes.
(Not a bad fit)
Pte. Mason In Uniform:
Which Reads - Taken in India possibly in Calcutta 1946. On leave for a
month Christmas 1945 to New Year 1946. Billet on Calcutta Race course
in room normally for the jockeys, overlooking winning post, leave Ascot
standing with regards colour and dress.
Pte. Mayson
Battalion Boxer
Pte. Mason In Civvies
Pte. Mason In Navy Uniform
Pte. Mason In Uniform