Lyle ‘Horace’ Hutley, the last British soldier to have worked on Kanchanaburi’s Bridge on the River Kwai, has died aged 104

Lyle ‘Horace’ Hutley, the last British soldier to have worked on Kanchanaburi’s Bridge on the River Kwai, has died aged 104

THE last World War 2 British soldier to have worked on the  Bridge on the River Kwai in Kanchanaburi  has died aged 104.

Lyle “Horace” Hutley was captured in the fall of Singapore in 1942.

Lyle later told his niece how he had spent “three terrible years in the jungle, suffering torture and burying numerous pals”.

Lyle, a gunner in the Royal Artillery Service Corps, weighed six stone when freed in 1945.

He is believed to have suffered PTSD but returned to the camp “to forgive” in the 2000s.

He retired to Mildenhall, Suffolk, and died at home.

Great-great nephew Sam Dixon, 27, added: “He was a true war hero.

“You never saw him unhappy, despite everything he saw in his life.”

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15340740/british-soldier-bridge-river-kwai-died/