War Years
In the Second World War, with Japanese forces advancing through Asia, David Marshall joined the Singapore Volunteer Corps and was taken prisoner after the Fall of Singapore in 1942. He was sent to work in the coal mines of HokkaidÅ, Japan and survived 26 work-camps before being released after Japan's defeat in 1945.
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Famous quotes containing the words war and/or years:
“The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting—the war and the revolution—and the character of the accused—revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power—you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
“We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)