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Still at war: Howard Laws, later vicar of Aston Ingham and Lea, was fighting the Japanese in Burma while Victory Europe Day was being celebrated at home
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Still at war: Howard Laws, later vicar of Aston Ingham and Lea, was fighting the Japanese in Burma while Victory Europe Day was being celebrated at home. Hereford’s Don Cornford, too, missed the VE celebrations – he was held prisoner by the Japanese and forced to work on the notorious Burma Railway. He weighed only around 35 kilograms when Captain Redman, a Guards Regiment officer, parachuted into their prison camp. ‘The war is over,’ Redman told Don. (Herefordshire Lore/Peggy Laws)
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