FEPOW Memorial Ambon

[pzu]

May I commend to you all a piece from the Telegraph of 9 August by Sue MacGregor of the BBC

Sue MacGregor finally lays flowers on her hero uncle's grave - Telegraph

And as an aside is she short of at least one medal?

PZU - Out of Africa (Retired)

[herkman]

I think you are correct, as I believe he could not have the Pacific star without having the 1939-45 star awarded first.

Regards

Col

[Chugalug2]

I believe he could not have the Pacific star without having the 1939-45 star awarded first.

Indeed, which was one of the three medals sent to me when I applied for my Father's medals, as my Mother had not previously done so.
Thanks for the link, pzu. My Dad was in a TA RA LAA battery but I doubt they ever had the chance to fire in anger. He died in Fukuoka as a guest of the Japanese Emporer and now lies at the CWGC Cemetery at Yokohama. The shambles that was the Fall of Singapore and the surrounding territories may have distressed Churchill but it destroyed many lives, in the cruel squalor of the POW camps and in the families back home.

[Gnadenburg]

A few years ago, I hiked the Sandakan Death March route and we went to the "Last Camp" which had only recently been re-discovered since the War Graves teams went through there in 1945. The Jap Army murdered British and Australian POW's there two weeks after the war ended! The historian I was with took a metal detector there a few years later and found bundled buttons and army insignia, buried in a sort of time capsule fashion by the ill-fated POW's.

Rotten bastards...

[Beaver man]

Gnadenburg, we're off to Sandakan in Oct. Any info you can give us will be gratefully accepted.
BM