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Shipwrecked, snake-bitten and face-to-face with a tiger - a navy officer's incredible escape from Singapore revealed on VJ Day
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukManchester Evening News today as the nation observes the 75th anniversary of VJ Day.Robert Gerrard Curry trekked across Sumatra, part of Indonesia, with a group of Army soldiers to the west coast, where he was pickedup by an Australian ship and taken to Ceylon, now Sri Lanka.He was 32 at the time in early 1942, three years before Japan surrendered, ending the war.Mr Curry survived his ordeal and returned to work at the Admiralty to help with preparations for the D-Day landings of 1944.He ended his navy career as a Lieutenant Commander.After the war he worked at ICI in Blackley and lived in Whitefield and Cheadle Hulme before his death at 70 in 1980.Though the memories endured, his family said he never spoke of what he went through.But,.
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