Thinking of a dad I never knew, though who did see his newly born son before embarking for the long one-way voyage to the Far East with his TA LAA Battery. They were turned away from an about-to-fall Singapore, then on the run in Java, until captured by the Japanese. He made it through over three years of captivity before succumbing to the treatment, four months before VJ-day. Now buried in a peaceful CWGC cemetery at Yokohama.
It was moving that those who survived and marched today said that it was to remember those who didn't, like dad.
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