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 war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters—not to talk in armies and nations and numbers—but to track it home.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.”
—Anna Quindlen (20th century)