Signed Japanese Flag

Contributed by Winchester House School

My grandfather, Edward Mobbs, joined the Royal Engineers aged 21 at the outbreak of World War II. He spent most of the war stationed in India with the 14th Army organising and working with the Corps of Indian Engineers in a field unit. His job was to rebuild roads and bridges destroyed buy the Japanese. This Japanese flag was amongst the things he brought back to Britain when he finally returned at the beginning of 1947.

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