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Dr William Frankland, Allergist and WW2 Prisoner of War
Dr William Frankland was a prisoner of war in Singapore during World War Two. He survived brutal beatings and hellish conditions and later became a world renowned allergist.
Dr William Frankland is a world renowned expert on allergies and one of the last remaining British survivors of the Japanese prisoner of war camps in World War Two. His is a death-defying, life-affirming story. But at the age of 106, what keeps him going?
(Photo: William Frankland. Credit: John Stillwell/AFP/Getty Images)
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