To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day on Friday 15 August, Kenilworth Nub News is sharing a short series on the town's connections to the Second World War and the war in the Pacific. The town will mark VJ Day with a short service at the Abbey Fields war memorial at 11am on Friday.

This latest feature shares the story Anthony Edward Gordon

Anthony Edward Gordon was born on the 24 July 1922. Both sides of his family were military.

When World War Two began, he was 17 and joined REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers).

He never saw service in Europe but was in North Africa and when VE day came he was in Burma with three more months of fighting ahead of him. By then he was a Chindit.

Created by Major Wingate, the Chindits were a special operations unit for long range penetration

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