Liz Coward
@lizcoward.bsky.social
Author. Changi Chapel and Museum docent (guide). WW2 buff. Paddler. Lives in UK
Just finished this. The letter is heartbreaking because he could have taken leave in Sept. Instead he saved it up for Christmas. Six days after this letter he failed to return from a patrol. He was 29.
September 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Just finished this. The letter is heartbreaking because he could have taken leave in Sept. Instead he saved it up for Christmas. Six days after this letter he failed to return from a patrol. He was 29.
It was an honour to take 820 squadron around Changi Chapel and Museum today. It is on deployment with U.K. Carrier Strike Group currently in Singapore. An impressive group of men and women.
June 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It was an honour to take 820 squadron around Changi Chapel and Museum today. It is on deployment with U.K. Carrier Strike Group currently in Singapore. An impressive group of men and women.
It was a pleasure to celebrate King’s Day with Anneke Adema, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Singapore yesterday. The two countries have very close ties spanning decades.
April 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It was a pleasure to celebrate King’s Day with Anneke Adema, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Singapore yesterday. The two countries have very close ties spanning decades.
Today, another Changi Museum guide and I attended the dawn Anzac Day service. Always moving and very personal for us because we’re honouring some who never even made it to Changi POW camp.
April 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Today, another Changi Museum guide and I attended the dawn Anzac Day service. Always moving and very personal for us because we’re honouring some who never even made it to Changi POW camp.
This is the sort of thing that makes me home-sick. Good job @allontheboard
April 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This is the sort of thing that makes me home-sick. Good job @allontheboard
Reading this at the moment. Published in 1995 but still potent. It’s heart-warming to read of the joy and relief she feels when her POW son writes from Germany. Heart-breaking when you contrast that with what the families of the FE POWs must have felt, let alone the POWs themselves.
March 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Reading this at the moment. Published in 1995 but still potent. It’s heart-warming to read of the joy and relief she feels when her POW son writes from Germany. Heart-breaking when you contrast that with what the families of the FE POWs must have felt, let alone the POWs themselves.