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Mr Ian Denys Peek (Rendlesham 1935-1938)

After leaving the College, he returned to Singapore, where at the age of 20 he and his brother Lewis Ronald “Ron” Peek (R34-38), were taken prisoner in the fall of Singapore in 1942. They were sent to work on the infamous Burma-Thailand Railway. In 2005 he published a book entitled “One Fourteenth of an Elephant – A memoir of life and death on the Burma-Thailand Railway”. After the war he returned to the Far East where he worked as a harbour master, before moving to Australia in the 1960s.