For decades, military historian and author Lynette Ramsay Silver’s research on Australians at the frontline in the Far East and the experience of World War Two (WWII) prisoners has helped families find answers that assuage the pain of not knowing. Her efforts in tracing “unknown” prisoners of war (POWs) and identifying unmarked graves in Borneo — 38 since 1998 — have brought closure to many who lost loved ones between 1942 and 1945.
Lynette Ramsay Silver’s work on ‘unknown’ POWs and unmarked graves has helped bring closure to bereaved families
Questions cloud war accounts about soldiers deployed to foreign lands who do not come back. Are they missing in action, captured or dead? If felled in combat, where and what became of their remains?
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