abstract:Ben Wheeler was a Canadian doctor in the British Army (Rank was Major) stationed in Singapore in 1942 when British forces unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese. He had a central role in keeping up the spirits and the health of British and Commonwealth soldiers subjected to harsh treatment while prisoners of the Japanese, and was directly responsible for saving hundreds of lives.
"Life in Britain: Using millennial Census data to understand poverty, inequality and place" by BenWheeler, Mary Shaw, Richard Mitchell and Danny Dorling is published by the Policy Press.