A fearful freedom

Hamond, Robert2022

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This amazing war survival story tells how Jim Wright, a Norfolk gamekeeper's son, aged 23, managed to evade capture by the Japanese during the last few days of the battle on the Malayan mainland. Within a year all his companions had either died or been captured or killed by the Japanese, except for four. Two of these died in 1944 and Jim, and the other one, were the only ones to come home in 1945. Twenty-five years after his rescue he returns to his jungle haunts and this helps to lay some of the horrors which he suffered there and after the war to rest. Robert Hamond also served in 18th Division and was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore. He later worked on the notorious Burma-Siam railway where so many died. Thirty years after the war he met Jim Wright and persuaded him to tell this extraordinary story, a story which Jim had not revealed, even to his family.