Angel on My Shoulder
Publisher: Lane Publishers
Published: November 1996
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781897666166
Subjects: Biography: general; Prisoners of war
Description: After a short illness, Geoff Monument died on 18th April 2009 in Lichfield, Staffordshire. 
Geoff was the author of the book “An Angel on my Shoulder”, originally published in 1996.  Geoff’s book recounts his time as a POW in Japanese hands and is a highly readable account that deliberately focuses upon the more humorous and positive aspects of time in captivity and lacks the bitterness that, understandably, tends to be a feature of many of the other FEPOW authored books. 
After capture in Singapore in February 1942, Geoff was transported on the same ship as the commander of the disastrous Malayan campaign, General Percival, to Formosa. He later spent much of his time in captivity in mainland Japan, working initially in the Mitsubishi shipyard in Yokohama and then towards the end of the war in the Sendai Mining camp. The book describes these experiences in detail as well as his journey home at the end of the war via the Philippines, Vancouver Island and the trans Canadian railroad to Halifax prior to the voyage home to Southampton on the liner “Isle de France”.
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