Aidan MacCarthy, a doctor from Cork, who had been a prisoner of the Japanese since the fall of Singapore in 1942, anticipated that day would be his last ... Just days beforehand, the Japanese had made the prisoners of war (POWs) dig their graves.
People will soon be able to visit what is believed to be the world's first purpose-built prisoner of war camp dating from the NapoleonicWars between Britain and France.