It has been one of those 24 hours I often dream about. You wouldn’t believe the jig I just did around my workshop come office. An accumulation of events have fitted some long lost pieces of the jigsaw together, chuffed is an understatement, ‘I Am Over The Moon’. Gemma’s hankie was the beginning which sparked the events. That led to my remembering I had put a hankie into the Death Railway pages under the Kaorin Camp.
http://www.britain-at-war.org.uk/WW2/Death_Railway/html/kaorin.htm
That led me to starting a database on Kaorin Camp which triggered me searching the web for the ‘Kaorin Camp’. That led me to finding the water colour and the news that the hankies were part of a liberation plane drop. That led me to Debbie’s plea for help on her great uncle’s hankie and her joing the FEPOW Family Facebook group. That led to sketches on Chungkai Entertainments as there was a sketch on the Kaorin Camp.
And Finally the WHOOPEE event one of the sketches contained JOHN COAST as STAGE MANAGER. John was the author of ‘Railway of Death’ which has recently been re-released. My father said it was the nearest book on his time in the Camps in Thailand. So I went back to do some research and have completed John’s page with index card etc. which I started about 10 year ago. Over the moon -I am still bubbling:-
http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/c/html/coast-john.htm
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KEW:- WO 361/2167, WO 361/2167, WO 361/2058, WO 361/2176, WO 361/2069, WO 345/11, WO 392/23, WO 361/1979, WO 361/1954, WO 361/2196