Not everyone was prepared to surrender: John Crawley gathered 60 Non-Commissioned Officers and men, found a junk and sailed to Sumatra. Later they sailed for Ceylon, but were captured before they reached safety. Crawley spent the rest of the war as a resourceful adjutant of a Prisoner-of-war camp in Siam, and was severely beaten by the Japanese guards for his defiance. After the war, he stayed in Bangkok to assist the repatriation of PoWs. Lieutenant-Colonel C.E. Mackellar, the regiment's commanding officer, was previously a prisoner following the Siege of Kut in the First World War. He, and his second-in-command Major Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 10th Baronet, survived the notorious PoW camps on the Burma Railway. Mackellar insisted on keeping up standards in the camps, and spent many months in solitary confinement. 182 men of the regiment died, forced to work on the Burma railway. A further 72 were died during captivity after work was completed, including 43 when a Japanese convoy carrying prisoners to Japan was attacked by US Navy submarines. Postwar In the reformed TA the regiment became 265 (8th London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA, at Napier House, Grove Park, Lewisham, a modern drill hall rebuilt in 1937, while 265 HAA Rgt Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) Workshop was at the old HQ at 'Oaklands' in Plumstead. It formed part of 97 (AA) Army Group Royal Artillery. Anti-Aircraft Command was disbanded on 10 March 1955 and there were wholesale mergers among the TA's AA units. 265 (8th London) HAA Regt merged with 460 (City of London) HAA, 567 (7th City of London) Light AA/Searchlight and 569 (The Queen's Own) LAA/SL regiments to form 265 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA, with the following organisation: RHQ at Grove Park P (7th City of London) Bty at Grove Park Q (The Queen's Own) Bty at Grove Park R (4th City of London) Bty at Catford S (8th London) Bty at Foots Cray, Eltham A further round of mergers on 1 May 1961 saw the regiment amalgamated with 458 (Kent) LAA Rgt (less one battery) and 570 (First Surrey Rifles) LAA Rgt to form a new 265 LAA Rgt with the following organisation: RHQ and HQ Bty at Grove Park P (Kent) Bty at Bexleyheath Q (London) Bty at Foots Cray R (Surrey) Bty at Camberwell Light Aid Detachment, REME, at Bexleyheath On 4 October 1961 the regiment dropped the 'LAA' part of its