December 1941.
Jack Frith left his family and his life to go to war like so many others, uncertain whether he would come home.
Whilst in a convoy bound for the Middle East the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, triggering Allied entry into the Pacific War.
Hastily regrouped and ordered to the Far East, the now ill-equipped convoy peeled off for Java and elsewhere.
Slipping the moorings, Jack could not have known that years of captivity and brutality, starvation and forced labour, and yet worse,.