Incredible story of Black Country WW2 veteran and last known survivor of 'death railway' who has died aged 104
A man from the Black Country who was the last known survivor of the death railway has passed away.
Jack Jennings, who was originally from Cradley Heath and had lived in Stourbridge, died on January 19 at the age of 104, in Torquay where he was residing.
Mr Jennings had fought in the jungle in Asia during the Second World War and worked on the Burma Railway as a prisoner of war, returning to the battlefields in Singapore and Thailand years later as part of a National Lottery scheme.
He appeared in a National Lottery advert where he relived his experiences from the war as he returned to where he had been a prisoner of war.
He said at the time that he had been able to pay his respects to those lost and also come away with a better feeling about the area after having lived through atrocious conditions and unimaginable sights.
Mr Jennings took part in the epic Battle of Singapore and suffered near-starvation on a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp before being sent to work on the railway line.
At 95, the retired joiner from Cradley Heath committed his memoirs to print in an online memoir.
