VJ DAY - REMEMBERING THE CHINDITS IN BURMA - ALL THOSE YOUNG MEN FROM THE "FORGOTTEN ARMY" 75 YEARS AGO

 

Raining very hard here in Billericay, Essex at the moment.  How lucky we were to miss the downpour this morning at 11 o'clock when turning up for the VJ commemoration at the town's War Memorial to observe the two minute silence. Jim Shrubb, our Town Crier delivered a moving speech and verse recalling those terrible years in Burma.

Today is the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Millions of people died during the worst conflict we’ve ever known. We remember them to ensure it can never happen again.