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Flag to be raised in remembrance of servicemen who died in Japanese PoW camp

Sunday 04 July 1993 23:02 BST
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The Rev John Crowe, of Dorchester Abbey, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, carrying a Union flag used to cover the makeshift coffins of soldiers who died in the Batu Lintang prisoner-of-war camp at Kuching, Malaysia, and which is to be presented to the church at a service on 18 July.

Photograph: John Lawrence

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