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Afternoon Lecture | Children of Far East POW’s

Thursday 21st August
2pm – 3pm

Join Jackie Sutherland for an afternoon lecture as she shares the extraordinary story of her father, Captain Jack Ennis, a POW in the Far East during the Second World War. Drawing from his personal diaries, Jackie offers a deeply moving insight into his experiences, charting his work as a pathologist in captivity, the challenges of daily life, and the resilience, friendships, and humour that helped him endure over three years of internment.

£9.00 – £11.00

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In 1941, Captain Jack Ennis, medical officer and pathologist in the Indian Medical Service, was sent ‘up-country’ in Malaya to work at a remote hospital. As the Japanese invaded, he wrote daily in his small pocket-size diaries. He described the retreat to Singapore, captivity and internment by the Japanese, and finally, in 1945, the end of the war in the Far East. Throughout his time in captivity, Jack continued his work as a pathologist. His diaries provide a unique description of the danger and difficulties as a prisoner of war.

In this talk Jackie Sutherland, his daughter, will draw on her late father’s diaries and mementos to illustrate aspects of his life in internment – three and a half years that included the daily struggles, deprivation and tragedy and also ingenuity, great friendships and humour.

As the daughter of two Far East Prisoners of War (FEPOW), Jackie is a member of COFEPOW, a charity dedicated to upholding the memory of FEPOW. Jackie is the volunteer Co-ordinator in Scotland. Members are kept in touch with occasional newsletters and meetings. For more details of the organisation, please go to the website cofepow.org.uk

£11 non members | £9 Friends

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