A British army veteran who fought and survived one of his country’s harshest battles known as the Burma Campaign against the Japanese during World War II has traveled to Japan to lay flowers at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at a memorial ceremony on ...
Military officials from Australia, Britain, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United States salutes to the unknown Japanese soldiers who died overseas during the World War II after laying a wreath of flowers at the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. The memorial was attended by military officials from the embassies of several former allied nations, including Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the U.S.
“It was very moving, but it brought back some terrible memories,” Day said after the ceremony. When he was laying flowers, he said, “I was remembering the screams of people ... they were crying out after their mothers.”who also attended the event.Day was in his late teens when he was sent to the notoriously severe battle, where he also faced harsh conditions, including contracting malaria and dysentery simultaneously while fighting the Japanese.
Some 50,000 British and Commonwealth troops were also killed, nearly half of whom perished in brutal prison camps. Hard feelings toward Japan’s brutal treatment of prisoners of war remained in Britain years after the fighting ended. The university professor shook hands with Day, expressing his appreciation of the British veteran’s trip to Japan. He later said he is aware not everyone is ready for reconciliation and that it would have been even better if a Japanese veteran who survived the battle could come.
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