CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Antiques Roadshow: VJ Day Special on BBC1: Poignant keepsakes of the Forgotten Army brought a lump to the throat…
Antique Way: VJ Day Special (BBC1)
Words have been written to the monuments of war throughout the country: ‘When you go home, tell them and we gave it today for tomorrow.’
But perhaps very few, know that words are sometimes called Kohima prayer, which was called after a war in 1944, in 1944, a turning point in the war against Japan.
Unlike Alamein or Arnhem, Kohima is not often remembered.
Unfortunately, the courage and sacrifice of the British and British Society of Nations defending him is ignored.
Sometimes it should not be surprised that they call themselves the fourthly forgotten with dry irony.
However, his stories were marked with a mixture of seriousness and sensuality for bringing some grandchildren to the antique roads of the valuable war in the Far East: VJ Day Special.
Historian Robert Tilney, a Japanese officer with a cup from Kohima’dan Shin Gunto Sword, ‘History in your hand,’ he said. ‘This is a submitting job.’ ‘
This section followed the conflict chronologically from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima.
Unlike Alamein or Arnhem, Kohima is not often remembered. Unfortunately, the courage and sacrifice of the British and British Society of Nations defending him is ignored. But stories in the Far East Antique Way: VJ Day Special
This section followed the conflict chronologically from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. The names are familiar, but the horrors of the troops in the Southeast Asian forests are exposed to their imagination. In the picture: the Second World War Veteran Bill Redston and Fiona Bruce
The children and grandchildren of the survivors are all repeated versions of the same line: ‘He never mentioned much.’ In Picture: In 1944, his father Kohima and Imphal wars with two guests fighting on the opposite sides of Fiona Bruce
The names are familiar but the horrors exposed to the troops in the Southeast Asian forests are beyond the imagination, because the narrow path to the Derin North (followed in BBC1) can prove viewers.
The children and grandchildren of the survivors are all repeated versions of the same line: ‘He never mentioned much.’
In part, as the presenter Fiona Bruce discovered, this was because the soldiers returning from the lethal Japanese prisoner camps were under the order of discussion.
I always felt that there was another psychological cause: these men had passed Hell to protect their families.
They could continue to give this protection by illuminating what they suffered.
Combined with a deep sense of respect that everyone in the show felt, there was no doubt that he was grateful.
No valuation was given to any of the artifacts – this would be rough.
In any case, how can you put a price in a bowl shaped by a coconut shell, which is the ownership of a single man during long prison sentence?
Many of the items, a chess set carved with a pennife from balsa wood or a soldier with a soldier, was impossible, like an explosive expert who fought in the depths of enemy lines.
Combined with a deep sense of respect that everyone in the show felt, there was no doubt that he was grateful. No valuation was given to any of the artifacts – this would be Crass
Most of the items were impossible like a chess set carved with a pennife from balsa wood or a hat worn by a soldier.
Chindits is an explosive expert who fights deep behind the enemy lines.
Probably the most touching, a artillery man was a letter to his son and has been carefully protected for more than 80 years.
‘Dear little Jimmy,’ he wrote, ‘Even if you can’t read it, I hope you will hold it and feed it. Be very good for the mummy because he is the most beloved person in the world and I love him as much as I do. ‘
Jimmy had a lump in his throat while reading. And so too.
