Today is VJ Day - (Victory over Japan) Day - marking 79 years since the surrender of Japan and the end of the WWII. Did you know around 9,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed or wounded, with 130,000 captured in Malaya and Singapore?
The war ended in Europe in May 1945 - but thousands of personnel were still fighting in the Asia Pacific, from Hawaii to North East India. It was brutal: “The fighting took place in malaria-ridden jungles during drenching monsoon rains and on remote islands in searing tropical heat, but always against a tenacious and often brutal enemy…”
- National Army Museum
On VJ Day 2020, we launched the PTSD Resolution Memorial Wall - for relatives to remember Veterans of the UK services, in all wars, who died without a known grave.
Colonel Tony Gauvain (Retired), Chairman of PTSD Resolution, whose father was killed in action in Singapore in 1942, says:
“VJ Day on August 15th marks the day when Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, bringing the war to an end. The memorial wall initiative serves as a reminder of all those people who were killed in action and reported as missing presumed dead, and who do not have any gravestone by which to honour their memory. "
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Relatives of fallen Veterans with no grave can submit details and an image by using the form here: www.ptsdresolution.org/memorial-wall.php
THERE IS NO CHARGE - but visitors are invited to make a charitable contribution to the work of PTSD Resolution in providing free mental health therapy to traumatised Veterans, Reservists and their families.
If you have someone you would like to commemorate, we would love to hear from you.
Image: 'Civilians and service personnel in London celebrating V-J Day on August 15, 1945’ - Imperial War Museums
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