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A WAR hero’s children are appealing to Princes Charles to posthumously honour their late father and acknowledge his bravery. Basil William Bancroft, a sea merchant seaman born in Cape Town, South Africa, enlisted in the Royal Artillery as a gunner in 1938. He was then deployed alongside his regiment to Malaya in 1941 during the Second World War, where he risked his life on “multiple occasions”. Following the fall of Singapore in 1942 he was captured by Japanese soldiers and was kept prisoner at the Saigon prisoner of war camp. Here he was worked as a slave in the port, loading and unloading heavy equipment and supplies for the Japanese war effort. ....
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