Jim and his brother had no regrets about not taking the soft option by staying with their father as internees or by not being evacuated earlier from Singapore because of their ages. They were born in India into a military family and as it was always their intention to become soldiers they did not seek or expect special consideration. It would have been a greater humiliation to have been singled out for evacuation to UK while their father remained behind as an internee. They had the double satisfaction of surviving Japanese brutality for three and a half years with a sense of duty totally fulfilled.
