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Post by les on Aug 21, 2023 23:57:01 GMT -5
Fergus Ankorn(Smiler)
Fergus Ankorn ended up in the British Military Hospital in Singapore.
in 1942 he was dying from wounds. He was vaguely aware that patients were being marched out to be shot.
He still had nightmares about it years late. He remembered that the bedridden men were being bayoneted to death he held a pillow over his head.
He heard the death cry from the man in the bed next to him.
He would have nightmares about this for the rest of his life.
He ended up in Changi Prison where 50,000 men were in 4 barracks.
he then end up in Thailand where the guards were cruel and the place was filthy, with men suffering from malnutrition and dysentery.
His family was told he had been killed. They learned that he was
alive as bland as an official Japanese Government card, issued to all
prisoners, that explain he was in good health and eating well.
but he had used pitman's shorthand to tell them.
he had kept the card.
Fergus ankorn was the first man from Sevenoaks to be called up.
in September 1945 and nine others were rounded up by the guards to be shot
the young man just five stone was expecting to be shot.
at about 20 minutes their blindfolds were taken off and told the war was over
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