I apologise if I seemed brusque re the listing of the WW11 Roll of Honour. Any such task takes enormous dedication and effort and I have no wish to malign the contributors. My concern is that I am aware of many people, some of whom I later knew as friends, who were held or killed in the Far East who I am told appeared not to be listed in some publications, including the War Graves websites. In 1971 I lived for some months in Singapore in a building in which were located the infamous Changi murals. I used the opportunity to talk to many ex PoWs of Commonwealth and UK origin and was horrified by their stories. I believed them when they told me that many of their comrades had gone unrecorded. To my eternal sorrow I have also stood to attention in my uniform at Kranjii Cemetery and saluted some of those dead. However, the story somewhat comes up to date as in the last few weeks it appears that a database, detailing the true extent of the number of PoWs that perished in Japanese hands, has been released. Before this facts were distorted and incomplete because of the lack of information from the Japanese.The event has broken in some broadsheets and I note that the DT newspaper says the information is held at the PoW Research Network Japan:homepage3.nifty.com/pow-j/e/. Personally I have no wish to visit the website as knowing some of the horrific details of that war is enough. I know that this list looks at the scholastic side of history and perhaps there is no place for emotion or remembrance outside the immediate task of tracing ancestors. But we live with history and it is real as so many of our people have found to their cost. It is not just a record in a book. Finally, my pedantic nature tells me that no list of such historically epic but sad proportions can ever be accurate. Mike Bailey (ex Carbrook) Sawtry Cambs