What a great thread, only just come across it. It was good to see that in most of the photos the guys looked reasonably healthy. More than can be said for those in Japanese Prisoner of war camps. One of our neighbours living at 46 Abbey Road Erdington, think his name was Upton, was in a Japanese POW camp. I remember his mom telling us she had had a letter from him and asked her to save the stamp. She thought it strange as he did not collect stamps. She steamed it off the envelope and found he had written on the back of the stamp about the atrocities taking place. I wont relate here what they were but some of them made me feel physically sick. He was certainly not the same man after returning home.