Seventy years later, answers to how a POW met his death at Changi

This is an article in today's edition of The Age (Melbourne, Australia)

http://www.theage.com.au/nsw/-grshvv.html

 

Thanks BFBSM,

I can really relate to this story, as some of my Chindit 1 research has enabled families to learn what happened to their loved ones, over the same length of time.

 

He had a very nice overhead camshaft Norton 'International' before the war.

 

Just in case it leads anyone else here who is interested in this story, here are the details on the two men being discussed:


Lance Corporal FAIRY, William Fredrick VX48685 of the 2/29 Australian Infantry Battalion - Date of Death 5 Apr 1944


Private YOUNG, William VX60083 of the 2/29 Australian Infantry Battalion - Date of Discharge 19 Dec 1945 (the nominal roll shows his date of birth as 4 Nov 1921 - his actual date of birth would have been 1926)



PS - Lynette Silver is the researcher who exposed that mongrel who was claiming to be an ex-POW, in spite of the fact that he was a schoolboy in Adelaide during the war years and had never served in the military. He went on to become the president of the ex-POW association in Australia and was being paid the highest ex-service pension by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Thanks to Lynette he ended up in jail for his crimes (not for long enough though).