A memorial board bearing the names of 110 people with Salford connections who died as Prisoners of War in the Far East in WWII is set to be unveiled.
The memorial board is set to be unveiled tomorrow (Tuesday, August 15) in the Salford Veterans Memorial Garden on Chorley Road, Swinton.
Inscribed with 110 men with Salford connections, the FEPOW (Far East Prisoners of War) memorial will stand beside the public wall which names those who served in HM Armed Forces or the Merchant Navy, either as Regulars, Territorial Army or Reservists, National Servicemen or conscripted during wartime, and who are no longer with us.
FEPOW’s are members of British groups and Commonwealth soldiers who were held captive in Southeast Asia and the Far East, in places such as Japan, through the Second World War.
One example of a Salford POW is Gunner George Arkwright of the 21 L.A.A regiment, who was captured in Java on March 8 1942.
Forced to support the production of the Burma Railway, St George’s Church in Singapore, and work in copper mines in Formosa, families of FEPOW’s have since created support and memorial groups across the world.
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