The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will commemorate the service and sacrifice of West Wyalong resident Private Douglas Andrew Love Craig at the ...

In 1942, the taoiseach's uncle was captured by Japanese forces who occupied the island and he was sent to the notorious Changi prisoner of war camp, RTÉ reports. Mr Martin said: "I think it was ...

His immediate neighbours in Changi included Russell ... s efforts to escape from the camp towards the end of the war, using the good offices of a Korean prison guard called Kio Hara: “Kio ...

The remains of Pfc. Joseph R. Travers, a Massachusetts soldier missing since the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to Taunton for burial.

A s a British prisoner of war in Changi Jail during the Second World World War, James Clavell was approached one day by a Japanese officer, who offered to lend him his samurai sword. Clavell ...

America was not officially in the war when they set off but while the ... Jack was taken to Changi prison camp in Singapore but at the beginning of 1943 he was sent to work on the Burma railway ...

The men held within the Changi prisoner of war camp in Singapore live in their own form of society under the watchful eye of Japanese soldiers. Clavell draws on his personal experience as a ...

The writer of the book, on which the series was based, was a young officer in the Royal Artillery, who ended up in Changi, the infamous Japanese prisoner of war camp in Singapore. Name the series ...