Wwwop - very interested to read your thread. Along with Danny, it is good to hear from those of the same generation as the people we are talking about. You are quite right Danny, he had nothing at all to reproach himself for, but I am sure it was something he would never be able to forget.
Just a small point of pedantry, which may not be entirely appropriate here, but Danny is raising a glass to all who wear the Burma Star. In addition, the very large number of POWs who were taken at the fall of Singapore were subsequently awarded the Pacific Star, often posthumously of course.