Incredible story of Black Country WW2 veteran and last known survivor of 'death railway' who has died aged 104
A man from the Black Country who was the last known survivor of the death railway has passed away.
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Jack Jennings, who was originally from Cradley Heath and had lived in Stourbridge, died on January 19 at the age of 104, in Torquay where he was residing.
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Mr Jennings had fought in the jungle in Asia during the Second World War and worked on the Burma Railway as a prisoner of war, returning to the battlefields in Singapore and Thailand years later as part of a National Lottery scheme.
He appeared in a National Lottery advert where he relived his experiences from the war as he returned to where he had been a prisoner of war.
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He said at the time that he had been able to pay his respects to those lost and also come away with a better feeling about the area after having lived through atrocious conditions and unimaginable sights.
Mr Jennings took part in the epic Battle of Singapore and suffered near-starvation on a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp before being sent to work on the railway line.
At 95, the retired joiner from Cradley Heath committed his memoirs to print in an online memoir.