Lionel Bailey's Index Page
For a brief background on Lionel, click here
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| Wartime experience - a fascinating diary of travel by ship out to Singapore where Lionel was told to get to Australia when the Japanese invaded, but was eventually captured and imprisoned. And then the day of release and return home. | Click here for the diary |
| Christmas Card that Lionel sent home - sadly, his hopes were not going to transpire |  |
| The telegram to Lionel's parents advising them of his capture in 1943 |  |
| Local press cutting on Lionel's capture |  |
| The island where Lionel was imprisoned during the war (and as it was in 1985) | 
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| Notice of Japanese surrender and details of air drop to Allied prisoners |  |