Philip Reid in 1924, aged 23.
philip reid, born 1901
naval officer & prisoner of war
Philip Henry Stewart Reid was educated at Osborne and Dartmouth. He spent his career in the Royal Navy, serving in the First and Second World Wars. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was stationed in Singapore. He was captured at the fall of Singapore, and spent most of the Second World War in a Japanese prisoner of war camp at Palembang, Sumatra.
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Source: Provided to Lives Retold by Alex Reid, the author of this life story and son of Philip Reid, in 2019.