How board game helped free POWs

[CTNana]

Originally Posted by David Layne

Not sure what you mean about how did I find out about this.

The attachment is taken from a "Wartime Log" that the Red Cross gave to P.O.W.'s. In the log the prisoners recorded their thoughts, wrote poetry, sketched their surroundings etc.

I am not aware of any complete parcels surviving but recently on the internet, I saw a box that was in a museum.

Oh I am having a bad day!!!!

I meant how did you find out about the monopoly sets being used and have any of them survived?



p.s. David this is when you admit that you played with one of these monopoly sets after feeding that horrendous meal to your "girlfriend"!!!!!

[David Layne]

I meant how did you find out about the monopoly sets being used and have any of them survived?

I found the article on the internet but was aware of it happening.


p.s. David this is when you admit that you played with one of these monopoly sets after feeding that horrendous meal to your "girlfriend"!!!!!

You have too long a memory!

[Andy M]

Interesting read David. I may try and find a way to work some of this into a project I'm working on.

Regards,

Andy

[David Layne]

Originally Posted by CTNana

I have recently been contacted by relatives who were seeking the forum's assistance in how to progress having their brother's remains brought home from Burma. Sadly it was in the centre of the devastated area so not only is it inappropriate to pursue right now but increasingly unlikely that they can be located.

Can you update us on this and give a little more information?

[Kyt]

Thanks for bumping that David, I had missed Nana's post completely.

Nane, are the remains Commonwealth or American? Are they in a designated CWGC?US cemetary? If they are then it will be nigh on impossible to get them re-interned. However, if they are "lost on the field" then it is a question of trying to locate where he may have fallen. Unfortunately doing that in Burma is extremely difficult - not only because of the logistics but because of the access to the country

[CTNana]

Originally Posted by David Layne

Can you update us on this and give a little more information?

My apologies for not replying more quickly. I have lots of information which can be summarised as follows:-

I quote"Flight Sergeant Walter George Bond, RCAF service number R. 260658. Flying as a wireless operator/air gunner, Walter disappeared on 19 June 1945 when his RAF 358 Squadron B-24 Liberator bomber, EW124, failed to return from a Special Duties operation destined for Burma or, more likely, Thailand (via Burma)."

An American called Matt Poole has been helping the Canadian family who contacted me. His hobby is tracking down the relatives of war time crash fatalities and helping them to have the remains brought home.

He puts forward a strong case for the identification of wreckage which corresponds in respect of timing and general location (sadly I'm told in the middle of the devestated area) and has lobbied the Canadian government on behalf of the families.

Despite the Canadian government having led and funded a similar mission before they seem disinclined to do so again.

I guess the situation in Burma will have thwarted any possibilites now, but I had wondered if any of you had any other ideas?

Hope that was not too brief!

[David Layne]

So many fates are left unknown
And so many rumors that abound
So many families ask the question
"When will, the answers be found?"

So many years have come and gone
Sometimes, hope is hard to keep
There's some who feel there's none
And in some, it's buried deep.

The pain, is in not knowing
How, to put loved ones' to rest
When there is no way to prove
They have passed, the final test.

But, no matter what the answers
We can't let this cause alone
Until, each and every one of them
Is found, and brought back home

[CTNana]

Originally Posted by David Layne

So many fates are left unknown
And so many rumors that abound
So many families ask the question
"When will, the answers be found?"

So many years have come and gone
Sometimes, hope is hard to keep
There's some who feel there's none
And in some, it's buried deep.

The pain, is in not knowing
How, to put loved ones' to rest
When there is no way to prove
They have passed, the final test.

But, no matter what the answers
We can't let this cause alone
Until, each and every one of them
Is found, and brought back home

How true! David who wrote that?

[Kyt]

The problem of officially locating, identifying and returning causalties is complicated, which ever country is involved. But due to both the international sanctions against Burma, and the disinclination of the Burmese government to allow any outsiders into te country, it is nay on impossible to get very far.

And I know of Matt - he is member on rafcommands