Far East Prisoner of War Charitable Trust
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COFEPOW is a Registered Charity dedicated to perpetuating the memory of the Far East Prisoners of War and advancing knowledge of the suffering endured and sacrifices made by them during their years of captivity in World War II. The members of COFEPOW are the war babies and siblings of many thousands of men who died on the Thai/Burma railway, the Sumatra railway, the Sandakan Death Marches, in copper mines in Formosa, steel factories in Japan, building roads in Burma, air strips on Ambon, Haruka, Java, Rabaul, New Guinea and the Solomons. COFEPOW has established the Far East Prisoners of War Memorial Building. The building is situated within the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas in Staffordshire, which is a Millennium project. It is envisaged that this functional project will become an educational and cultural centre. We want to enlighten and teach children and people of today and the generation of tomorrow, of this tragic era in our Military history.
