We salute you

As we fight one world war – against an insidious killer virus – it is easy to forget the ending of another.

But yesterday’s commemorations for VJ Day show that those who fought in the Second World War in Asia remain in our memory.

More than 71,000 British and Commonwealth lives were lost in the Far East’s humid jungles.

Tens of thousands more were put through unbearable suffering as PoWs.

It is only right we honour those who survived that unspeakable ordeal, as much as we honour those brave souls who did not.

Prince Charles led the tributes yesterday. The Duchess of Cornwall and veteran Darbara Singh Bhullar, 97, laid wreaths.

The Queen sent a message. The nation paused for silence. And the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight roared overhead.

It was a fitting way to send a message to what was once called the Forgotten Army.

And that message is: You are not forgotten.