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After three years with the Territorial Army, Lt Col Truscott enlisted in the Royal Corps of Signals in 1934 and trained as an Operator Wireless and Line. He was posted to Hong Kong in 1937 and was still there when the Japanese invaded the colony in 1941. Having been made a Prisoner of War he was, in September 1942, being transported to Japan on the Prison ship ‘Lisbon Maru’ when it was torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Grouper: one of 400 survivors from a total of 1800 Prisoners of War, he swam for 24 hours before reaching an island in the China Sea. He was re-captured by Japanese Marines within 24 hours and taken to the Prisoner of War camp Osaha where he remained until the Japanese surrender in August 1945. In 1954, he was commissioned as a Quartermaster reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Royal Signals Museum
Blandford Forum
Title
Lieutenant Colonel M. E. E. Truscott (1916–1997)
Date
1949
Medium
oil on board
Measurements
H 35.5 x W 30.5 cm
Accession number
4944:P429
Acquisition method
unknown acquisition method
Work type
Painting
