| Surname: | Lee |
| Initials: | A H |
| Rank: | Sergeant |
| Army Number: | 822906 |
| Notes: | CMP/RMP. He enlisted Royal Artillery, 8/5/1943 to HAA, 6/10/1944 transferred to Corps of Military Police. Shown on RMP Nominal Roll 12/1952 Sgt. Arthur Harry Lee. Extract from the Hampshire Telegraph 27/6/1952. High Honour. The honour of hoisting the Roya Standard on the parade ground in the hear of Berlin during the ceremony of Trooping of the Colour on the Queen's Birthday fell this year to Sergeant Arthur Harry Lee, RMP whose mother lives at 19 Hertford Street, Portsmouth. A regular soldier with 29 years service, sergeant lee served in India before the war with the pack mule batteries, and returning to England took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk. There he was wounded. When he recovered he joined the Corps of Military Police and served throughout the Burma campaign until 1945. After the war Sergeant Lee spent two years in charge of the detachment in Portsmouth before coming to Berlin where he is now stationed. Sergeant lee has his wife is living with him and both of them like Berlin very much, in fact they think in one of the best stations abroad. (this article has a picture of Sergeant in SD cap, BD and white equipment. |