Charles is a 90-year-old veteran of the 14th Army in Burma in WWII. It was a privilege to meet him today on the Battersea Fields Estate.

He was keen to talk about the role of the ‘forgotten’ 14th Army in Burma where he served 70 years ago.

Battersea boy Charles says he was “bloody lucky” when he was shot in the arm in World War Two.

Listen to him explain how he had friends less fortunate:

Charles told me he’s the soldier leaping from the boat on the front cover of “Forgotten Voices of Burma”

In the recording below he tells me he didn’t know the photographer was there and very nearly shot him!

It was extraordinary to meet Charles and hear his vivid memories of the things he went through when he was 19 & 20 years old. I will remember him.