“My 98 year old Chelsea Pensioner Father is the 2nd oldest in the Royal Hospital Chelsea. He was a POW for 3 and a half years, captured in Singapore and spent his time working on the dockyards, for the Japanese, in Saigon, Vietnam. He says his time as a POW was nothing near as bad as the poor fellows who worked on the railway and who worked down the mines in Japan. He never complains about anything, not even when he is in pain, he still loves joining in all the activities in the Royal Hospital, even taking up pottery recently. He never declines an opportunity to go out and we regularly go to concerts, the theatre and restaurants. For his 98 birthday this year we had breakfast up the Shard.”
