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Word: prissier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oxford, is preparing for a career as an educator. During the war, he served as a commissioned officer with the British Royal Artillery. Captured in the fall of Singapore, he worked on the Siam-Burma railway and helped to run a camp library and book repair shop while a prissier of the Japanese. After his repatriation in 1945 he wrote a book about his war experiences entitled "In the Shadow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rotary Sponsors Two Britons for Graduate Schools | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

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