This remarkable memoir brings to life the extraordinaryexperiences of an ordinary English family swept up inthe Japanese invasion of colonial Malaya and Singaporeduring World War II. A story of love, loss and survival,’Never A Medal’ exposes the irony of how so manypeople engulfed by that calamity, bravely enduredunimaginable suffering, receiving scant recognitionfrom a post-war Britain hurrying to forget its worstmilitary disaster.