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My brother joined the Royal Leicestershire regiment at the outbreak of war. He went to the Far East and was captured when Burma fell. He remained in their custody until the end of the war. I know very little of what he must have suffered during that time. I was twelve when he came home. Our mother used to serve him his dinner at the table and every time he would immediately put his arms around the food on the plate shielding it from everyone else. He never explained why but I always felt that it was probably a habit picked up during his captivity, while on the diet of practical starvation the Japanese had bestowed upon him.

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