Dear Blogger
Apologies for the gobblegook you probably received in my last email.
Message from Irena White, forwarded by Margaret Lycett.
Please read the attached story of Roger Moon`s experiences on the Burma Railway.
Back in 1969, when we came to live in Ruyton, there were men here who had been prisoners of the Japanese.
Roger Moon of The Mill House was one of them.
Do check out the Burma-Thailand Railway WW2 but be careful not to get Trip Advisor which advertises this dreadful time as a tourist attraction!
On 6th August we remembered the terrible consequenses of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August, leading to the Japanese surrender on the15th. The news did not get to the railway until 28th of August.
12,000 men died, a 5th of the allied prisoners who worked on the railway.
Roger and I have many good Japanese friends who, ironically, we should have been meeting up with at an International Rubber Standards meeting in Thailand in October.
Yoland
