My Grandfather kept a lot of letters about his time in the war, safe in a box to show us grandchildren when we were old enough to understand what he went through.
Grandad (Mr Maurice Morgan) was a prisoner of war in Burma, and here are some of his letters home to his mother Nellie Morgan.
He was taken Prisoner on the 15th February 1942 in Singapore. Released in 1945.
He spend 3 years working on the Burma / Siam death railway living on very little food, and being beaten repeatedly.
He had to walk 10 miles some days just to where they were working that day, then do a full days hard labour cutting down trees in the high humidity of the forest, then walk 10 miles back to camp.
All the had to eat was a hand full of rice.
