Jack Jennings (veteran) explained

Birth Date:1919 3, df=y
Birth Place:Old Hill, Staffordshire, England
Death Place:Torquay, Devon, England
Battles:World War II
Unit:Cambridgeshire Regiment

Jack Jennings (10 March 1919 – 19 January 2024) was an English World War II survivor. Jennings was among 60,000 Allied prisoners forced by the Japanese to build a railway between Thailand and Myanmar from 1942 to 1943.[1] [2] Jennings was born in Old Hill, Staffordshire, on 10 March 1919.[3] [4] He died at a care home in Torquay on 19 January 2024, at the age of 104, and was thought to be the last survivor forced to build the Burma Railway.[5] [6]

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  1. News: 2024-01-22 . Death of man thought to be Burma Railway last survivor . 2024-01-22 . BBC News . en-GB.
  2. News: 2022-03-10 . 'Death railway' veteran Jack Jennings turns 103 with sing-along . 2024-01-22 . BBC News . en-GB.
  3. News: Jack Jennings, probably the last Allied prisoner of war to survive the Burma Death Railway – obituary . 2 February 2024 . The Telegraph . 2 February 2024.
  4. News: Killelea . Amanda . War hero, 100, who was PoW in brutal Japanese camp remembers 15 dying per day . 22 January 2024 . The Mirror . 8 November 2019.
  5. Web site: 2024-01-22 . Death of man thought to be Burma Railway last survivor . 2024-01-22 . Yahoo News . en-CA.
  6. https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/jennings/5170870 Jack Jennings

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