Private, 5833764, Jack Barfield 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Jack was born on 23rd June 1912 the son of Frederick and Anna Barfield, The Street, Bramford.
He married Ethel May Spurling in 1939 and the couple lived at 2 Ideal Dwellings, Bramford Road (now 700 Bramford Road). He is buried in the Taukkyan War Cemetery Myanmar.
From the Fison, Packard & Prentice Journal July 1944
1939 Register entry — Ideal Dwellings, Bramford Road:
THE BURMA CAMPAIGN
The 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment was in the 5th Infantry (India) Division
At the end of 1943 the division was taking part in the Burma Campaign. It was facing theJapanese 55th Division on the coastal flank of the Arakan front. The defeat of the Japanese 55th Division, to which a large share of the credit must go to the Indian 5th Division, was the first decisive victory against the Japanese since they had invaded Burma two years previously.