Lewis Herbert remembers Cambridgeshire’s World War II Far East soldiers in Open Cambridge talk

Lewis Herbert, the former leader of Cambridge City Council, talked to a full council chamber at the Guildhall to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, as part of Open Cambridge.

A significant proportion of those attending the talk, which was titled ‘Remembering Cambridgeshire’s Far East Soldiers in World War II’, were relatives of prisoners, including those who never made it home.

In the talk, on Friday, 12 September, Mr Herbert focused on the injustice to 2,000 soldiers from Cambridge and the wider county being sent into a beleaguered Singapore in January 1942.

It followed his earlier talk back in 2015 on the 70th anniversary.

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