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Main view - Taken by no copyright 06 Apr 2014
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Info at base of flag - Taken by no copyright 06 Apr 2014
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Crest at top of memorial - Taken by no copyright 06 Apr 2014
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Flag - Taken by War Memorials Trust 27 Mar 2016
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Plaque detail - Taken by Waar Memorials Trust 27 Mar 2016
Reference WMO/169903
Address:
Community Hub (Free entry area)
The Long Shop Museum
Main Road
Leiston
IP16 4ES
England
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- Second World War (1939-1945)
Grants to support the repair and conservation of war memorials are available from the charity War Memorials Trust if it has raised funds. Support is focused on war memorials in Very bad or Poor condition or where there is a serious Concern.
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'A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole. It does not look likely to stir a man's soul. 'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag, when the pole was a staff and the rag was a flag'. This Union Jack was brought home form the Far East by Leiston members of the 4th Bn. The Suffolk Regiment, after the 1939-45 War. Throughout the period that the Bn. were captives of the Japanese, the flag occupied the place of honour over the Altar in the little bamboo Church in CHUNKI (Thailand) P.O.W. Camp. When a man of the Bn. died, the flag was used at the Burial Service. On the capitulation of the Japs' (16th Aug., 1945), the flag was hoisted to the top of the pole in the Camp, by the men of the Bn. who had survived the three years of living hell. This flag was mounted, framed and erected here by public subscription, as a Memorial to the members of this Battalion who died in the Japanese P.O.W. Camps.
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