Reflections on Remembering

davidbfpo · Jul 18, 2023

Dr. Robert Lyman latest column is based on his reflections after attending the annual Kohima Service @ York Cathedral, organised by the Kohima Educational Trust. He starts with:

My generation, and my parent’s generation, have no direct experience of war. I have never held a gun or worn a uniform and I have never felt the fear of knowing that the next day, or the next moment, might be my last.

My grandparents however, were all involved with the Second World War and, on an occasion like this, my grand father Jack is much on my mind. In 1942, he was 2,500 miles away from Kohima, in Singapore, where he was captured by the Japanese, and sent to the jungle prison camps made famous by the film Bridge over the River Kwai. He spent 3 years there in horrendous circumstances, brutalised by the prison guards, starved of decent food and riddled with tropical illnesses.
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Link: The Sermon Preached at the Kohima Memorial Service, York Minister : 6 July 2023

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