"A VETERAN whose weight dropped to just over five stone when he was starved in a prisoner of war camp has died aged 100. George Reynolds, who lived in Victoria Court, Newport, was a survivor of Japanese prisoner of war camps during World War Two. He died on Wednesday at the Royal Gwent Hospital. Mr Reynolds was just 18 when he joined the Royal Artillery regiment in March 1937. He previously aired his anger to the South Wales Argus of General Percival's ill-thought decision to sign an armistice in 1942, resulting in more than 60,000 soldiers – including himself - being handed over to the Empire of Japan. "I was shocked at this decision,” he said. “It was unexpected. "We were now prisoners of war and oblivious to the horrors that awaited us."" Veteran who survived being starved as a prisoner of war dies aged 100
