Last Post over the River Kwai

Stationed in Shanghai in the early 1940s, the 2nd Battalion The East Surreys was deployed to Malaya and fought gallantly to slow the Japanese advance.

After heavy losses, the survivors found themselves PoWs in Singapore in February 1942 after the humiliating surrender which Churchill described as Britain's worst ever military disaster.

The next three and a half years saw members of the Battalion suffering appalling hardship at the hands of their brutal Japanese captors.

Many died, but remarkably the majority survived to tell their story.