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When Harold Victor Dundas married Kathleen Joan
Farrington, he was still married to Sybil Alexa Yates and therefore married
bigamously. He altered his name slightly to Harold Victor Dundas - Dunbar to
avoid detection and moved to Malaya, where he took up the post as station
superintendent at the
Perak River Hydro
Electric Co in Ipoh. A deed of trust was drawn up in
1924 with his first wife. Unfortunately the original has gone missing
although there is still a reference to it in the solicitors papers. Family
legend suggests that this trust was an agreement between Harold Victor and
his first wife to agree to the separation although remaining married on
paper, thereby leaving Harold's estate intact for his son. (Frederick Victor
Leopold Dundas). When the Japanese invaded Malaya, it is believed that a
false death certificate was arranged to show Harold as having died in Wales.
No doubt no one believed that Harold would escape the Japanese and it was
therefore necessary to protect the estate of his first son in England.
(Kathleen Joan Farrington, his 2nd wife and the 2 sons returned to England
before the invasion of the Japanese). Harold
was taken a prisoner of war by the Japanese but survived his internment in
Changi. Due to the supposed death in Wales, he was unable to return home,,
but did eventually return in 1956, very sick and died shortly afterwards. His
death certificate gives his name as Harold Vincent Dunbar, which is
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