NAM.1992-09-128-2

Second of two sound cassettes: oral history interview with Capt N S Leask, Cameronians 1939-1946 covering his time during World War Two Far East and World War Two India. Interviewed by Peter Boyden, 13 March 1992. Leask was a member of both his school and university OTC, and was called up in 1938. Too young for a direct commission he served with the Cameronians for sixth months before attending OCTU at Dunbar in Jun 1940. He arrived in India on the 'Strathmore' early in 1941 and was initially employed in internal security duties in the Secunderabad area. The day Singapore fell he sailed for Burma, where he and his battalion were engaged against the Japanese, with some success. Suffering from pneumonia he returned to India and after a great deal of training in jungle warfare was invalided home in 1944. Here he was posted to thePolish Legion near Glasgow, and at the end of thewar escorted six batches of Polish troops back to their homeland, before being demobilised.

World War Two, India (1939-1945), World War Two, Far East (1941-1945)