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Article: Perspective: Prisoner scarred by Japanese brutality; The Government has announced pounds 10,000 compensation payments to Far East prisoners-of-war. Alison Jones talks to Fred Brown who was captured in 1941.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2000
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Byline: Alison Jones
Nobody could blame former RAF gunner Fred Brown for being bitter. He still bears the scars of the four years he spent as a Japanese POW after being captured aged just 18.
In the winter he still suffers violent cramps in the leg where a snake bite left him with an open wound that surgeons could only treat with razor blades and grass poultices.
He witnessed death on a daily basis, friends taken through illness or a too-violent strike from the butt of a soldier's gun.
Yet his reaction to the news that he and his fellow ...