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Old 11-06-2008, 11:06 AM   #6 (permalink)
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E. W. Swanton, the former Daily Telegraph cricket correspondent & BBC commentator, was also captured at Singapore. He had a copy of Wisden with him, which was passed round the camp over the next 3 1/2 years. The well thumbed volume is now in the museum at Lords.

There was an article in Wisden Cricket Monthly about 20 years ago about a camp in Poland containing POWs from a number of Commonwealth countries. Test Matches between Australia, England, New Zealand & South Africa were played.
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