In 1942, some 350,000 men of Africa volunteered to join the Allied Forces.
Brave, resourceful and keen to prove themselves as warriors, many never returned from the Far East theatre of war.
One man managed to get out of a Prisoner of War camp in Japan before the Americans bombed Tokyo, bringing four East Africans with him.
His remarkable story is told in The Meeting House,
now a screenplay by Sophie Neville
