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I have a Raymond Hugo Clibborn b.1910 Hull (1st Mate, March 1931 London No 30717) who left the UK as crew on the Memnon on the 13th January 1934 for the Far East. On his 1939 questionnaire, when he volunteered for the Royal Naval Reserves at the outbreak of war, he states "Master, July 1935, Singapore, no 603", gives his address as c/o The Straits Merchant Service Guild, Colyn Quay, Singapore which I believe was a sort of club and says that he speaks Malay. I have some of his earlier merchant seaman records from Findmypast. I also have the Royal Naval records for the fifteen months he was a temporary lieutenant in the RNR in Singapore in 1939/40. Does anyone know where I can find merchant naval records for Singapore between 1934 and 1939?