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COLD CASE FORENSICS is now available on Amazon Prime and Apple TV – as well as ITV X. I think viewers outside the UK can watch it on Prime. If you do, please let me know where you are watching it and what you think. In the series world-leading forensic scientist Dr Angela Gallop and
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Sgt Major Les Spence Les Spence was a remarkable man who kept an astonishing journal. For almost four years he risked his life to keep a daily record of hardship, courage and endurance in prison camps run by the Japanese. He and his fellow prisoners faced starvation, disease and cruelty. They kept up their spirits
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Just found a wonderful memory of Cardiff’s historic win at the Twickenham Sevens in the spring of 1939 in an article from Wales Online. The team featured Les Spence and Wilf Wooller who three years later would be captured by the Japanese in Java. Les kept a secret diary (of which a lot more here:
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In early 1942 a courageous band of Welshmen found themselves fighting side by side against the all-conquering Japanese army. The men, who had joined up to provide air defences for Cardiff, Newport and Barry, had been sent to the Far East as the Japanese bore down on Britain’s “impregnable fortress” at Singapore. But the battle-hardened
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“We hear from the guards that one bomb blew up Nagasaki.” Les Spence writes in his diary, August 1945 For more than three years during World War II, Les Spence was a prisoner of the Japanese. Spence, who would later go on to become president of the Welsh Rugby Union, had been captured in early March
Greg Lewis 