GEORGE WHAYMAN,

A Company, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment

HE WROTE to his wife Ethel. Days later he was among 338,000 British and Allied troops rescued from the Nazi onslaught by the fleet of ‘little ships’. But then he went East to defend Britain against Japan and was fatally hit by a mortar bomb at Punggol Point, Singapore. George, right, was buried at Kranji War Cemetery.

‘DEAREST Ethel xxx, Darling don’t worry yourself, we must keep smiling, there are hard times just now, but with the wind the right way we shall get through… Trusting you are all in the pink, keep your pecker up my love, must close, with all my fondest love and kisses, yours ever George xxxx.’