Research has revealed that Jack Menzies, son of Capt. Bill Menzies was captured by Japanese forces in Malaya early in 1942 and about a month before Singapore fell. At first he was incarcerated in Changi Prison after which he was sent to work on the Thai-Burma railway. When this was finished he was brought back to Changi and then sent to Japan to work in mines and in a brothel. He was just 50 miles from Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb was detonated and he might well have heard it and seen something of the devastation it caused. Somehow he survived all this but it is thought that he committed suicide later in life.
