Time to remember our Forgotten Army

CHILDREN aren't often taught about the courage and sacrifice of British and Commonwealth soldiers who stopped Japan's invasion of India in 1944. BBC2's VJ Day 80: We Were There reminded us of the merciless savagery of the enemy.

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Robin Rowland, ex British India Army, recalled Japanese soldiers bayoneting 31 British soldiers in a field hospital.

Decapitated heads were put on spikes, prisoners were beaten to death, emaciated PoW slave labourers, looking like living corpses, were forced to build the Thai-Burma death railway.

The Battle of Britain and El Alamein are part of our collective memory.