Raymond Alexander HORROCKS

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HORROCKS, Raymond Alexander

Service Number:	WX39201
Enlisted:	26 April 1943
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Collie, Western Australia, 28 February 1925
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

26 Apr 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX39201, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion
2 Jul 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX39201, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion

Gap in the line

While Raymond was in Borneo, they would walk in a single file line through the wilderness. One of the men in charge yelled "There is a gap in the line." To which Raymond misheard "There is a Jap in the line." For those who do not know, the Japanese where nicknamed Jap's. He recounted the panic he felt followed by the humiliation of realising what the man in charge meant. It's important to remember how young Raymond was, he was really just a scared kid at the time, in a completely foreign place, full of people trying to kill him.

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