PART 4 The Evacuation of Rangoon. On the whole I thoroughly enjoyed my stay at Z. I was kept tremendously busy the whole time and my men too worked like Trojans.

In 1942 Japan had just declared war and had occupied Burma, where we were living After being sent home from school I returned to Rangoon, where the situation was getting restless. Burmese mother ...

He was known as "The Elephant Man" in the newspapers of the time - but only now has the full story of one of World War II's most remarkable rescues come to light.