THE true story of a soldier's incarceration in a Prisoner of War camp has survived, despite its original publishers going bust.

A former member of the Welsh Artillery 77th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Ronald Williams, who passed away in 1969 aged 58, was held captive in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies for more than three and a half years.

Read the full story in this week's Brecon & Radnor Express - out now!