Third of five cassette tapes: Oral history interview with Mr Fergus Anckorn, 118 Field Regiment Royal Artillery; Anckorn was called up as a militiaman in 1939 and spent most of the first two years of the war as a conjuror with the 18th Division concert party; as a driver of a 25 pdr Quad he arrived in Singapore with 18th Division in 1942, was severely wounded in the Battle for Singapore and miraculously survived the Alexandra Hospital massacre; as a prisoner of war he worked on the Burma-Siam railway and endured terrible privation. Interview conducted on 23 May 2000.
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