Burying loved ones… after 61 years

The devastating news as conveyed in the telegram. — Picture by Choo Choy May

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Dennis Carpenter, 80, still remembers the day his family received news that his only brother Geoffrey had been killed in far-flung Malaya.

They had received a telegram that Royal Air Force Navigator Geoffrey Carpenter, 23, was missing. His mother took the news badly and always thought Geoffrey would return home even after 10 years.

“He was a fun-loving young man, always wanting to go into the Air Force. His legs weren’t long enough so he couldn’t be a pilot. He joined the Air Cadets when he was still at school and when he left school, he went into RAF,” reminisced Dennis.


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