The British soldier who wrote about Kerry in a Japanese POW camp

Relatives visit Kerry to see places their grandfather wrote about while a prisoner in horrific conditions in Japan during WWII

British Lieutenant Colonel Joe Hazel.

British Lieutenant Colonel Joe Hazel imagined the scenic Kerry coastline while being incarcerated in horrific conditions in a Japanese Prisoner of War (POW) camp over 80 years ago.

Joe left his native Somerset in September 1941 to join the 6th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment as a Major in the Royal Artillery. He had joined the Territorial Army aged 18 in 1926 and was 34 when he went to war.