The band

played; and in the interval some of us told stories relating to VJ Day and the 14th Army. 

This is the story of my brother's father: 

The London Gazette recorded that
“With utter disregard of the obvious danger to himself Captain Randle charged the Japanese machine gun post single-handed with rifle and bayonet. Although bleeding in the face and mortally wounded by numerous bursts of machine gun fire he reached the bunker and silenced the gun with a grenade thrown through the bunker slit. He then flung his body across the slit so that the aperture should be completely sealed.”