FEPOW Memorial Church
Our Lady & St Thomas of Canterbury, Wymondham, Norfolk, England. Built in 1952 on the initiative of Father Malcolm Cowin - former Roman Catholic Chaplain to the 2nd Cambridgeshire Regiment and who himself had spent 3½ years in Japanese POW camps. While a prisoner he helped construct 3 chapels in different camps and determined that on his return to the UK he would build a church in memory of those who died in Japanese POW and Internment camps.
It serves as a Parish Church for the community as well as a focal point for the wider FEPOW community. There is a FEPOW shrine and an annual FEPOW memorial service held on the nearest Sunday to May 14 the anniversary of the Relief of Rangoon.
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