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Singapore Diary: The Hidden Journal of Captain R M Horner

Singapore Diary: The Hidden Journal of Captain R M Horner

by R M Horner (Author)

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    Hardcover 2006

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Synopsis

Despite illness and with death an everyday occurrence, Captain Ronald Horner took part in countless theatrical productions during his incarceration by the Japanese in World War II, designed to raise morale and bring some sense of normality, or illusion of normality, amidst the horrors of starvation, disease and brutality. The famous cartoonist Ronald Searle was a fellow PoW and some of the drawings here are by him. They both survived the ordeal; and so did Ronald Horner's diary, hidden in the false bottom of a suitcase.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 240
 Edition: UK ed.
 Publisher: Spellmount
Published: 15 Jul 2006
ISBN 10: 1862273391
ISBN 13: 9781862273399

Author Bio
Ronald Horner was born in St Albans, Herts. He was called up in February 1940 and disembarked in Singapore in January 1942 and became a POW at the capitulation on 15 February. He was initially in India Lines Changi, proceeded to Thailand on loan to Japanese Thailand Administration and returned to Singapore on completion of the railway, first to Sime Road and latterly to Changi Gaol. He returned to the UK in 1945. His main interests were cricket, rugby, charitable works and Countdown.