Photograph from Shropshire.

[mrclark303]

Hey guys it wasn’t the last time a bicycle was able to help troops , not that it wasn’t important for the allies but the Japanese took the island of Singapore by riding bikes down the Malay peninsula to take the alleged island fortress run by poor British leadership . Many of my countrymen never came home due to being captured and place in Changi prison and then being forced on many of the marches up the Malay peninsular .

Absolutely, many ANZAC veterans and their families felt justifiably very bitter towards Britain for the disastrous leadership in Singapore.

It was a very dark point in the war and their Japanese captors were cruel and brutal beyond belief.