Captain William Annan

Captain William Robertson Annan, Royal Engineers ( att. to Administrative H.Q. Force 136 ). He died in Sumatra on 5th May 1944 and is commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial.  Before the War he had been working as a architect in Edinburgh and London. He had been born in Edinburgh and was the son of John and Margaret Annan of Kingsknowe, Edinburgh. Force 136 was a general cover name for a branch of the Special Operations Executive and operated behind the Japanese lines in South East Asia especially Burma. They organised native resistance to the occupiers and assisted in many sabotage operations. It is believed he was killed in making a clandestine landing at Meulaboh, Sumatra.

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