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Singapore and Malaya
*[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/09/eric-lomax Eric Lomax obituary] (1919-2012) ''The Guardian'' 10 October 2012. A member of the [[Royal Signals]], he was in Singapore at the surrender and became a POW working on the Burma-Siam railway. His memoir is ''The Railway Man'', now also released as a movie of the same name.
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10367891/Ron-Burton.html Obituary: Ron Burton] 09 October 2013 ''The Telegraph''. He was Sergeant, 125 Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery (125 ATR), taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore.
*[http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/specials/noprisoners/viewpoints/elphick.htm "Cover-ups and the Singapore Traitor Affair"] by Peter Elphick 28 November 2001- presented at the Fall of Singapore 60th Anniversary Conference, National University of Singapore, 16-17 February 2002. A Captain in the Indian Army, Patrick Vaughan Heenan was executed on Friday 13th February 1942, two days before Singapore surrendered, for being a traitor. ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission)
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