Tomorrow, we delve into the complex, hidden history of 62,000 Indian POWs from WWII. Join Rob & special guest Gautam Hazarika as he explores the "impossible dilemma" of loyalty after the fall of Singapore. It is a truly deep story of survival, sacrifice, & forgotten struggle #FEPOW #WWII #History
History isn't always about the biggest monuments.
Meet the FEPOW Cross in King's Lynn Minster.
Why is it sitting next to a giant pulpit? Get the full scoop on the quietest corner of Lynn's history here: circato.co.uk/the-quiet-ki...
#KingsLynn #History #WarriorChrist #FEPOW
Thank you @armymuseumsuk.bsky.social for highlighting our #FEPOW exhibition at the #MoysesHallMuseum 🏛 in Bury St Edmunds in their newsletter 🙂
The Suffolk & Cambridgeshire Regiment Museum🏅 also has a permanent FEPOW display 🇬🇧 remembering their service
#LestWeForget #WW2 #FarEast #heritage
Hell Ship monument at Bronbeek, Arnhem.
#OTD in 1944 my uncle Harm perished when #HellShip #Hofuku_Maru was torpedoed and sank off the Philippines by planes of US TF38. Of the 1289 #FEPOW on board, 242 survived this #disaster.
Visit to Haverhill #Museum @haverhillarts.bsky.social center to have a look at their display remembering the Suffolk Regiment solider who were prisoners of the Japanese in #WW2 #FarEast #fepow 🪖
Loverly to meet their #volunteers & archivist who have a shared passion for local #history & #heritage 🙂
My 1st Open Cambridge event @cambridgefestival.bsky.social on friday 🙂
Fascinating 🗣 by Lewis Herbert on the Cambridgeshire Regt in #WW2 particularly their experiences as #fepow of the Japanese 🤔
Many of the audience were descende of #fepow with poignant stories to share 😥
#heritage #LestWeForget
The new Suffolk Regiment 🏅gallery at Moyses Hall #museum in #BSE is now open 👌
The commemorate #VJ80 we have an #FEPOW exhibition untill April 2026 to remember the Suffolk & Cambridgeshire solider who were prisoners of the Japanese 🪖
Thank you to Dan for his help 🙏
#heritage #WW2 #FarEast #army
Roy Pagani's story is one of incredible resilience. The only European to successfully escape from the Burma Railway , he attempted a 600-mile trek to India. Captured and tortured, he survived by creating a false identity as a downed American airman.
#ForgottenWar #WW2 #POW #FEPOW #Survival #History
The Suffolk Regiment 🏅 gallery in the Moyses Hall #museum in #BuryStEdmunds is being redisplayed today 😀
Our National Service display is being replaced by a #FEPOW exhibition to remember #VJ80
Even with careful planning there is always some fine tuning on site 🖼
#heritage #WW2 #history #Suffolk
#OTD 1945, my great uncle, George Henry Hall, was liberated from his POW camp in Thailand. He spent over 3 & 1/2 yrs in cruel captivity & was forced to work on the Death Railway via a few camps,inc Changi, to start with. He was repatriated not long afterwards. Poor sod.
#FEPOW
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Only 3 weeks left to visit #Suffolk Regt Museum 🏅 #NationalService display at the Moyses Hall #museum 🏛 in #BuryStEdmunds before we redisplay it to remember #VJ80 #FEPOW 🙂
Moyses Hall also have a temporary dinosaurs 🦕 exhibition 😊
#heritage #history #Veterans #LestWeForget #FarEast
The Imperial War Museum holds photographs of the liberated PoWs in Burma—harrowing
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#NeverAgain #NoMoreWar #Peace #Justice
#VJ80 #VJDay #VJDay80 #VPDay #WW2 #FEPOW
“And there will be no release for captives released
to stumble their way back
to an indeterminate existence...”
#NeverAgain #NoMoreWar #Peace #Justice
clarebryden.co.uk/vj-day-2025/
#Poem #Poetry for #VJ80 #VJDay #VJDay80 #VPDay #WW2 #FEPOW
Remembering family on #VJDay80, who were in the Far East, inc my Army Commando grandfather, a great uncle in the SWB's, one in the RAF, plus one as a #FEPOW at the fall of Singapore. With the dropping of the bombs, it cut short their suffering & most probs saved their lives.
#VJDay
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The story of my father Lance Corporal Ashley Prime,
Royal Signals, who spend 3 and a half years as a Japanese POW. And his ability to forgive and not carry that bitterness through his life. #VJDay80 #fcdo #ukinjapan #fepow
Thinking about my grandad – and other #FEPOW - this morning. In Ube-Sanyo Fukuoka camp, Japan, he wouldn’t hear that #WW2 was over until 20/08/45. At the start of May he was listing fantasy foods (being Lancastrian, it was mostly pies.) #VEDay80 #VEDay
INDIAN POW LIFE IN WW2 SINGAPORE – A Geography Lesson for Sepoy Lal Singh, 2/17 Dogra
LEST WE FORGET – share this post to keep the memory alive of those who served.
#IndianArmy #IndianPOW #SingaporeWW2 #FEPOW #WW2
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The beheading of Indian POW Sepoy Mohd Shafi and other atrocities – First WWII War Crimes Trial in Singapore
See my article on what happened. The beheader identified as No.2 in the photo was sentenced to death by hanging.
#IndianArmy #IndianPOW #SingaporeWW2 #FEPOW #WW2
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INDIAN POW LIFE IN SINGAPORE – Tamil to Hindi Dictionary in Roman-Hindi, another rare survival as little records exist today of their captivity.
#IndianArmy #IndianPOW #SingaporeWW2 #FEPOW #WW2
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Families connected with men lost on the Lisbon Maru, Oct 1942. Film shown at Everyman Edinburgh
Watched The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru this evening & was blown away by it. A superbly crafted, deeply moving and respectful film, honouring the dead, the survivors , the rescuers & the heartbroken families. Award winning and deserves to be more widely seen. #BAFTA #FEPOW #WW2
Anyone else going to watch the documentary The Sinking of The Lisbon Maru tonight in Edinburgh? #FEPOW #battleofHongKong #WW2
INDIAN POW LIFE IN SINGAPORE – SARDARA SINGH’S SIGNATURE - THE ANSWER
On the 17th you had seen 7 samples of Singh’s signature, and guessed which he would finally use. Here is a document signed by him – it was signature No. 2
#IndianArmy #IndianPOW #SingaporeWW2 #FEPOW #WW2
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NDIAN POW LIFE IN SINGAPORE – GUESS WHICH SIGNATURE SARDARA SINGH FINALLY USES.
pls reply with the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6 or 7 and tomorrow you will see if you have guessed correctly when I post a document he has signed.
#IndianArmy #IndianPOW #SingaporeWW2 #FEPOW #WW2
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OCCUPATION OF SINGAPORE – 9 MILE MARCH TO CHANGI GAOL – 83 years ago today – 6Mar1942
A sketch & an account by Mr. WFN Churchill, one of the “Heaven-born” in the Malayan Civil Service and now an internee is here cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-RCMS...
#SingaporeWW2 #FEPOW #WW2 #InterneesWW2
OCCUPATION OF SINGAPORE – Today 83 yrs ago 5Mar1942 - AN UNPLEASANT AFTERNOON SURPRISE AT KARIKAL - a move to Changi Prison next morning.
Hastily, the last issue No. 14 Karikal Chronicles was published with instructions
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#SingaporeWW2 #FEPOW #WW2 #InterneesWW2
OCCUPATION OF SINGAPORE – A NORMAL MORNING AT KARIKAL MAHAL – SOON TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN.
#SingaporeWW2 #FEPOW #WW2 #InterneesWW2
Source: We Published in Prison by H. Miller & G.H.Wade, a manuscript made later that year in Changi Jail where they moved, in my collection.
INDIAN POW IN SINGAPORE
In a rare survival, he says (a lot lost in translation)
MY MOTHER AND SISTER HAVE BEEN CHIDING ME
THE LAST TIME I WAS IN THEIR EMBRACE
WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS
THAT WERE SO LONG AGO
#IndianArmy #IndianPOW #SingaporeWW2 #FEPOW #WW2
Source NAI, Glory Macwan, Amoli Son
To commemorate VJ Day, a spray of red flowers and a handwritten card tied with union jack ribbon, have been placed on Amble War Memorial.
Flowers have been laid at Amble War Memorial today 15 August, to remember the Far East Prisoners of War. Every year this heartfelt tribute is made quietly by an individual/ small group. #VJDay #FEPOW #Northumberland
