Harry Silman

Harry Silman (1910–2005) served with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers during World War Two, attaining the rank of Captain. In 1942 his division was diverted to Singapore, arriving just days before the Allied surrender there; he pent the rest of the war as a POW, tending to ill and dying men. His postwar years in England were spent in general practice as a beloved physician in Leeds.