ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½

I am researching my fathers war experiences. I have only just started but so far I know he was in the 5th Battalion of the Royal Norfolks. Headquarters Division(?)or Section and he was a Stretcher Bearer. He sailed from Glasgow on the Duchess of Atholl, was taken prisoner in Singapore and as a POW worked on the infamous Railway of Death. Amongst the camps he was in are Changi, Takura, Kanchanaburi, Nikki-nikki(of which there were several), Non Pladuc and Banpong. He returned to England on the Mount Vernon. As with many of his generation he has not been very talkative about those years since and his memory is no longer what it was.
He is anxious to contact any other POWs he shared his war with. His name is Reg Newman. As well as the Norfolks he remembers being with the Suffolks, The Cambridgeshire Regt and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He also remembers the camp/bridge he was in being bombed by the American Air Force.
I know that he landed back in Southampton on October 26th 1945 and arrived at his mothers door 3 days later (her birthday).