currency, diamonds and machinery out of Japanese occupied-Malaya and French Indochina. Elected as Member of Parliament for Bury in Lancashire after WWII. – A British Army officer fought in the Burma campaign while served in the 3rd Gurkha Rifles. Attached to Force 136 after being promoted to the rank of Captain. Educated to be a teacher, he became interested in zoology while fighting in Burma. Became a renowned zoologist after the war including receiving Doctor of Philosophy in zoologist in 1960. Wrote several books about mammals and has five species named after him (e.g. Ansell's mole-rat). Lt. Douglas Browning, a plantation manager in Malaya during the late 1920's and until the Japanese invasion of Malaya. Browning, with Syme and Edgar, escaped the fall of Singapore to Sumatra then to Australia where they enlisted in the AIF. He originated the idea of Operation Carpenter and was flown from Perth to Ceylon to meet with Mountbatten. After returning to Australia (by sub tender) he was sent to Exmouth to join a submarine to drop him off near Singapore. He was evacuated because of malaria and a hernia. Peace broke out before he could rejoin the fight. Returning to England in 1946, passing from malaria complications in 1948. 'Edward Cairney' (1911-2006) was a British operative. Having previously volunteered and worked in bomb disposal in London, he was recruited into SOE special forces commando early in 1944. He subsequently saw action behind German lines before D-Day engaged in hit and run operations against German target. He related that in one instance his unit overran a small SS garrison in a night raid. He also told a story about being sent to take out a machine gun emplacement as part of the D-Day landings, he said that the experience was terrifying. After D-Day he was sent the far east as part of force 136. He was part of an eight-man unit that operated out of Trincomalee, in what was then Ceylon, to carry out covert missions in Malaya. One of the aspects he hated was having to hack his way through the jungle. They had to cross many rivers so one person was tasked with swimming across and securing a rope the opposite bank to allow the rest to follow. Since he was a strong swimmer, he volunteered to be the rope man. He was also a jungle sniper which involved climbing a tree and