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A JAPANESE POW veteran who is volunteering with a cancer charity has enjoyed a spitfire flyby and Red Devils drop in at a huge party to mark his 101st birthday. Len Gibson, who survived the horrors of the Burma Death Railway, said of the event held in his honour: “It’s absolutely tremendous. “When I was a prisoner of war on the Mergui Road there was a time when I thought it was so bad I was in hell. “So I have experienced hell, and to be here today is heaven.” Former Bombardier Len Gibson endured forced labour and malnutrition while a POW but conquered untold hardship to become a musician who inspired Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics.
A 101-year-old veteran who was a Japanese prisoner of war and now volunteers with a cancer charity has enjoyed a spitfire flyby and Red Devils drop in at a huge party to mark his birthday.
Former Bombardier Len Gibson lived through the horrors of the Burma Death Railway and years as a prisoner of war, but conquered untold hardship to become a musician who inspired Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics.
And now, following in the footsteps of the charitable late centenarian Captain Sir Tom Moore, the war veteran, of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, has signed up for volunteer work with cancer charity Daft as a Brush.