{"id":345948,"date":"2025-08-15T07:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345948\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:23:14","slug":"vj-day-three-remarkable-men-of-the-cambridgeshire-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345948\/","title":{"rendered":"VJ Day: Three remarkable men of the Cambridgeshire Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chaplain Noel Duckworth (1912-1980) loved rowing &#8211; and the sport would go on to save his life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 5ft 2in (1.6m), the vicar&#8217;s son from Yorkshire coxed for his college at the University of Cambridge, for the university boat club &#8211; and for Great Britain during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, said Mr Jackson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By the outbreak of World War Two he was a Church of England priest and he joined the 2nd Battalion as its padre &#8211; the name given to Army chaplains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Singapore fell, field hospitals were being overrun and the injured were being executed, so the order went out that it was every man for himself. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Amazingly, Royal Army Medical Corps personnel elect to stay behind and look after the wounded and Noel Duckworth sees it as his duty to do the same,&#8221; said Mr Jackson, co-founder of the Cambridgeshire Regiment Research Trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group he was with was captured and the order to kill was about to be given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chaplain Noel Duckworth (1912-1980) loved rowing &#8211; and the sport would go on to save his life. At&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-345948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115031585809449020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}