S.s. Narkunda

[Hazel Stringer]

Anymore thoughts on the W ?

Keith.

Hi Keith,

Further research has shown that W Stringer is definitely not the man I am looking for, but thank you for your efforts!

Research and DNA has shown that Dominic Michael Stringer and a man called Dominic Cunningham Casey are one and the same man.

Dominic Casey's army records have finally surfaced some months back and I have now had the time to decipher them. He was D. Casey 3315812 gunner/driver 6HAA. I believe he was on convoy WS12Z that left the Clyde/Liverpool for Durban where it split. Part of the convoy was redesignated DM1, it was a fast convoy. It left Durban for Singapore and arrived there on 13/1/1942.

His army record shows him as missing at Singapore. Then in the records, he is reported safe by Gen Officer commanding Colombo's office in mid April 1942. The record goes on to show him as AWOL again almost immediately. Finally, it shows that a fellow soldier from Glasgow reported meeting him in Durban in June of the same year!

Now all I have to do is "join the dots". How did he get from Padang to Colombo, Durban and finally Trinidad.

He certainly got around!

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Hazel
Keith is no longer a Member here!
Sorry

Hope that my entries i posted on your other Question, will assist some
Cheers

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Hazel
Troopships where notoriously full on those trips, I am assuming that it would be easy for a crafty man to mingle on a crowded ship, plus in a panicking Singapore it would be fairly easy to steal another soldiers papers, and on arrival in Colombo revert to his own, then do the same to Durban.
Des

[j.sabourn]

Sailed with a few seamen in the 50/60 s who came back via the Queens who had missed their ship in New York and got a free passage back to the uk by just mingling and sleeping in public rooms , just walked off in uk and no one ever knew they were there unless the lone solitary passenger who took pity on him or them. JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

John
Like the none paying passengers that used to ship out on the passenger boat from Auckland to Sydney, some with return none tickets.
Des