As night fell, the brothers began putting the kayak together. More than 2,000 men and women arrived in the UK from the Netherlands during World War Two - of which about 1,700 made the journey by sea.

He lived through World War Two watching one of his daughters ... been aware of the history of her great-grandfather and his brothers. "Mum said he [Frederick] was a very stout and quite stern ...

The War Department decided to bring Fritz home ... alive after the prisoners were released from the camp in Burma. The two ...