Retracing a soldiers path – Escape via Sungai Perak - 2011

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On the eve of Christmas in1941, Spencer Chapman, a British soldier from 101 Special Training School, and his reconnaissance team was sent behind enemy lines to gather information on the Japanese advancement and to meet the raiding party at Sungai Trong. After traveling through dense jungle from Parit to the Bruas road, they were unable to reach the rendezvous in time and had to find their way back to headquarters. Not knowing where the front line was, their plan was to slip down the Perak river at night at Parit, which will lead them straight to Teluk Anson (now Teluk Intan), beating the Japanese  who were on their way to take on Singapore. Sargent-Major Patterson, Sargent Sartin and Lieut.-Col Chapman would travel 50 kilometers on a badly holed ferryboat, without engine, through unknown territory where bombing and machine gunning was constant.

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Part 1:
http://www.learning-adventures.net/2011/08/16/retracing-a-soldiers-path-%E2%80%93-escape-via-sungai-perak-part-i/
Part 2:
http://www.learning-adventures.net/2011/08/17/day-two-paddling-down-perak-river-final/

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