VJ Day
VJ (Victory over Japan) Day was announced on 15 August 1945 bringing the Second World War to an end. The formal surrender had been signed a few weeks earlier on the decks of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September. Image © IWM (EA 75893)
“The War is over…those four words have for the Queen and myself the same significance – simple yet immense – that they have for you. Our hearts are overflowing.”
KING GEORGE VI, 15 AUGUST 1945
Signaller 2356663 Charles Burkitt
Civilian Wilfred James Douglas Montford
Civilian James Rothwell - Died at Tjimahi, Bandoeng
Serjeant Beatrice Dunbar Thomson - Died aboard the SS Khedive Ismail
Corporal Frank Mitchell, 175 Company, Pioneer Corps - Prisoner of the Japanese
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