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Creativity and Ingenuity of British Far East Prisoners of War, 1942 - 45
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Nowell Peach, FEPOW

Nowell was a medical officer and during his time as a FEPOW he fermented fruit to help increase the vitamin intake of prisoners. Despite this he himself suffered from vitamin deficiency as the food provided by the Japanese was inadequate.

 

Image: Former Fl/Lt Nowell Peach holding the home-made patella hammer he had made in 1943 in Tandjong Priok POW camp, Java, photograph courtesy M. Parkes