Burma Star Remembrance

August is the time to Remember the Forgotten 14th. Together with the Mayor of Newton Abbot, David Howe, I joined members of the Teignbridge Burma Star Association to lay a poppy wreath at the War Memorial remembering the end of the War in Japan 64 years ago and comrades in arms who fought the forgotten war in the jungles of the Far East. In particular those prisoners of war forced to build the infamous Burma Railway. Supported by the Royal British Legion the Burma Star Association now has only six surviving members locally who are determined to continue to honour their friends and comrades until the last man.