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It was the end of the war in Burma, that was formerly occupied by the Japanese. My mother and I were recently reunited with my father, who had been imprisoned by the Japanese throughout their occupation, and we were journeying back to England. I was taken with mother and father to the port of Rangoon and put on board the ship "The Langiby Castle" to be taken to England. On board the ship were POW's from Sumatra, most of them men and women from Holland. No one had any personal luggage. We were all well looked after, and at each port of call we disembarked to large sheds where the Red Cross, Salvation Army and local people had laid out tables with clothes, shoes, hats etc. We chose the items that fitted us best. We also had toilet bags with face flannel, soap, tooth brush and tooth paste. In the end we had six of these each. In Gibraltar we were given warm clothes on Christmas Day where we received lots of parcels from the local people, and we had fine evening of entertainment put on by the ship's crew including a fine Christmas Dinner. The journey took 29 days from Burma to England.

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