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William Thomas Skinner was born 15 July 1930 in Nashville, Tennessee. His parents were Sam Ode Skinner (1903-1937) and Bessie Lee Rose (1904-1985). He married Gertrude "Trudy" May McConnell, daughter of Alton McConnell (1911-1992) and Lillian Emma Cole, 19 January 1952. They had four children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and England.
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Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway is the first book to detail the experiences of British former prisoners of war (POWs) who were forced to construct a railway across Sumatra during the Japanese occupation. It is also the first study to be undertaken of the life-writing of POWs held captive by the Japanese during the Second World War, and the transgenerational responses in Britain to this period of captivity. This book brings to light previously unpublished materials, including: · Exceptionally rare and detailed diaries, notebooks and letters from the railway · Memoirs from Sumatra, including detailed recollections and post-war statements written by key personnel on the railway, such as Medi...
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