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Corporal Roland Griffiths-Marsh MM, (22 April 1923 - 29 December 2012) was an Australian soldier and author. ==Life== Griffiths-Marsh was born in Penang, Malaya (now Malaysia), and grew up in Hai Phong, Indochina (now Vietnam). On 29 February 1940, at the age of sixteen, he enlisted with the Second Australian Imperial Force, taking his older brother's name and date of birth to ensure entry. He served in the 2/8th Battalion in North Africa and New Guinea〔Truscott, Major Jim et al. Voices from Borneo: The Japanese war, page 19. Online at http://www.clarsys.com.au/jt/VfromBor1.pdf〕〔AWM Collection Record: PR85/036〕 before being recruited to Z Special Unit, a specialist reconnaissance and sabotage unit that operated behind Japanese lines in South-East Asia. He served in the Semut I operation in North Borneo (now Sabah), and was parachuted behind enemy lines to conduct guerrilla warfare with the assistance of local fighters in early June 1945. He was awarded the Military Medal for his service with Z Special Unit, the award was gazetted on 6 March 1946, dated 2 November 1945. The original recommendation for the award states: Griffiths-Marsh wrote about his wartime experiences in his 1990 book ''Sixpenny Soldier''. That same year the book was awarded both the The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction (one of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards), and the Colin Roderick Award, awarded annually for "the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life" along with the H.T. Priestley Memorial Medal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/humanities/fals/JCUPRD_036167.html )〕 This book was republished under the title ''I was Only Sixteen'' in 1995.〔Truscott, Major Jim et al. Voices from Borneo: The Japanese war. Online at http://www.clarsys.com.au/jt/VfromBor1.pdf〕 Papers by Griffiths-Marsh about the training of his native guerrilla force and service in North Borneo are held at the Australian War Memorial.〔Australian War Memorial Collection Record: PR85/036〕 Griffith-Marsh died on 29 December 2012 aged 89.〔(Roland Griffiths-Marsh )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roland Griffiths-Marsh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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