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Ivy Benson - One of Britains Greatest Femail Musicians by Jeff “Two-Tone Boogie” The 1940s Society For Everyone Interested in Wartime Britain Issue 78 March / April 2013 £3.00 Building the Railways The suffering of Japanese POWs Ivy Benson - One of Britains Greatest Femail Musicians by Jeff “Two-Tone Boogie” Photo Album Original photographs with a story Diary Events And much more... The 1940’s Society, 90 Lennard Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 2UX Tel: 01732 452505 Web: www.1940.co.uk Email: [email protected] 1 Topical Content This issue of the magazine is bursting with content which is also rather topical. The anniversary of the terrible tragedy at Bethnal Green Tube station, an article on the Burma Railway, which will be of special interest to those who will be coming to hear Fergus speak, and details of the shock move of the annual War & Peace Show. We even bring up the subject of horse meat which has been in the news so much recently. Whatever your interests I hope you enjoy this issue. All members who have an email address should now have received their log-in details to the Society website members area. If you haven’t had this then you need to email me at [email protected] with your details and I will make sure your log-in details are sent to you. It may be that your email address is out of date or incorrect so please drop me a line to let me know. The members area is new and small but I hope to add to it significantly. You can already find members offers, videos, and recent issues of this magazine (I hope to add all the issues eventually). If you have thoughts of what else you would like added please let me know. As always, please send in your articles, reviews, comments or suggestions for inclusion in the magazine and website as I’m sure your fellow members would enjoy reading them. Kind Regards Ian Please support the Society with a subscription on-line at www.1940.co.uk or fill out and return the form on the back of this magazine. If you have any comments, articles or information of interest we would be pleased to consider it for future use. Please contact us at: The 1940’s Society, 90, Lennard Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 2UX or email us at: [email protected] . All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part and in any form whatsoever, is strictly prohibited without the prior permission of the editor. Whilst every care is taken with material submitted to ‘The 1940s Society”, no responsibility can be accepted for loss or damage. Opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect those of the Editor or the 1940s Society. Whilst every effort has been made to contact all copyright holders, the sources of some pictures that may be used are obscure. The publishers will be glad to make good in future editions any error or omissions brought to their attention. The publication of any quotes or illustrations on which clearance has not been given is unintentional. Designed and produced by Ian Bayley. © Ian Bayley 2013 2 The 1940s Society For Everyone Interested in Wartime Britain Regular meetings at Otford Memorial Hall near Sevenoaks Friday 22nd March 2013 - 8pm Another Evening with Fergus Anckorn We were very fortunate to have Fergus Anckorn come and speak to us in September 2012 where he gave a fascinating account of his Second World War Experiences. The evening left all those that attended wanting to hear more from this extraordinary man and we had no hesitation in inviting him back to tell us more of his powerful story. We are delighted and honoured to have him back Fergus Anckorn was a to talk to us again and this Prisoner of War (POW) in evening’s talk will focus on Burma during the Second the coincidences he World War. He cheated experienced during his captivity. death on numerous occasions and experienced This is a rare opportunity to hear the first-hand conditions that few of us accounts of an extraordinary man and can not could imagine. be recommended enough. A short video clip of Fergus speaking at our last meeting is available to watch online at www.1940.co.uk Friendly meetings learning more about life in the 1940’s. Meetings start at 8pm at Otford Memorial Hall, Nr. Sevenoaks. Admission £3. Further details from Ian on 01732 452505 or visit the Web Site at: www.1940.co.uk 3 Dr John Ray Authoritative Books The Battle of Britain, New Perspectives The Night Blitz, 1940 - 1941 Now available from Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Watermans, NOOK, etc VIV The SPIV For all your WARTIME EVENTS Advertise here for as little as £20 Top Quality Merchandise Always In-Stock (No Coupons Required) 4 The Boys in Blue It wasn’t just the Army that suffered terribly as Japanese POWs but many services from many nations. David & Barbara Wilcox recently visited the Far East and share some of their experiences which are of particular interest considering our speaker this month, Fergus Anckorn, was one of those POWs. When ever I think of the RAF watched the famous film ‘Bridge during WW2 two sayings come over the River Kwai’, so it was into my mind “The Brylcreem really exciting to be able to see Boys or The Boys in Blue” how for ourselves this area which wrong I have been as during suffered so badly during the war WW2 the RAF were of course years. not only in Europe wearing blue but also in the Far East where We started at the Kanchanaburi the tropical climates uniform was War Cemetery, which is situated of a completely different colour. only a short distance from the site of the former “Kanburi” Recently whilst on a trip to the prisoner of war base camp Far East, we were fortunate through which most of the enough to visit Kanchanaburi prisoners passed on their way to to see the Cemetery, Museum other camps. The War Cemetery and the famous Bridge. We was created by the Army Graves had done some homework Service who transferred to it on the subject and of course all graves along the southern section of the railway from Bangkok to Nieke. 5 About 300 men who died mostly from a Cholera epidemic from Whilst walking around the May – June 1943 at the Nieke grounds we found several camp were cremated and their stones marking the graves of ashes now lie in two graves RAF personnel, so we began in the cemetery. The names to realize that it was not just of these men are inscribed on the army who were part of the panels in the shelter pavilion. surrender of Singapore, but also There are now some 5084 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery, there are also 1,896 Dutch War graves. The cemetery was designed by Colin St Clair Oakes. At the entrance, the Kanchanaburi Memorial also records the names of 11 men of the Army of Undivided India buried in Muslim cemeteries in Thailand where their graves could not be maintained. the RAF and Navy. Just across the road from the cemetery there is the Thailand- Burma Railway Centre, an excellent museum which tells the story in detail of that grim episode of World War Two which took place here. During the building of the railway which ran from Nong Pladuk in Thailand to Thanbuyuzayat in Burma, the Japanese assembled a multinational work force of about 250,000 Asian labourers and over 60,000 Australian, British , Dutch and American POWs. Work on the line began in southern Burma in October 1942 while at the 6 same time construction also still very much a memorial to all started in Thailand. On 16th those men who worked to build October 1943, the two ends the original bridge). The film of the Burma-Thailand railway fails to mention that not one but were joined at Konkoita in two bridges spanned the River Thailand. There was no modern Kwai in the Second World War. equipment for this work, earth The original wooden bridge and rock were broken by which the film was named after shovels, picks and chunkels was completed in February (hoes) and carried away in 1943, but the first train crossed baskets or sacks. Cuttings were the other 11 span steel and driven through rock by hand; concrete bridge seen today in metal taps and sledgehammers June of the same year. being used to drill holes for explosives. Most of the bridges along the railway were timber trestle bridges made from timber cut in the surrounding jungle. Our final visit that day took us to the River Kwai and the Bridge (which of course is not the one built during the War, but it is 7 The next day we visited the down the steep pathway to Hellfire Pass museum. The the cutting and by the time we museum was co-sponsored by had reached the bottom were the Royal Thai Armed Forces exhausted from the steepness Development Command and of the climb and also the heat the Australian government, to – we of course were fortunate commemorate the suffering – we hadn’t had to fight our way of those involved in the through bamboo undergrowth – construction of the railway. we had brought a good supply It was built by the Office of of water and of course had Australian War Graves and taken our malaria tablets that opened by the then Prime morning!! Minister of Australia, John Howard.
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