93 year old North Petherton prisoner of war Steve Cairns on BBC Somerset
Oct 14, 2011, 08:29 AM
He survived massacres, a bullet in his thigh, digging his own grave, being a POW & the Burma Thailand Death Railway.
Steve Cairns started as an apprentice, before being co-opted into the Navy when war broke out to fit guns to vulnerable convoy ships. He was just twenty one. He told BBC Somerset when he first saw action.
Hear it tomorrow (Sat 15th Oct) @ 7am with Simon Parkin on BBC Somerset.