Forgotten HeroToday is the anniversary of the fall of #Singapore in 1942. A chap who had married a cousin of mine was captured there.
He was still working on the #BurmaRailway when the final piece of line was laid and the railway was complete. He died the next day.
Phyllis re-married after the war and I recently made contact with a descendant of hers. If Walter had not died Phyllis would not have re-married and we would not be cousins!
Full story here https://forgottenhero.co.uk/di/
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He was still working on the #BurmaRailway when the final piece of line was laid and the railway was complete. He died the next day.
Phyllis re-married after the war and I recently made contact with a descendant of hers. If Walter had not died Phyllis would not have re-married and we would not be cousins!
Full story here https://forgottenhero.co.uk/di/
#WW2
#Genealogy
#ForgottenHero
From Singapore To The Burma Railway. - Just Another Forgotten Hero
Some time ago I discovered that my 6th cousin, Phyllis Eileen Brown, who was born in Kettering in 1911, married a Walter Edward Goode in late 1935. Walter was as a clicker cutting the uppers for making boots, he was born in 1911 too. By 1940 Walter was a Gunner in No. 3 Heavy Anti-aircraft
Forgotten Hero