Annalong family shares grandfather’s war-time stories

Annalong family shares grandfather’s war-time stories

By Lisa Ramsden Treasured medals, photographs and wartime documents, carefully stored away in a local family home, bear testament to the courage—and luck—of a local man who served in the Far East during World War Two. Tommy McCormick was stationed in Singapore when it fell to the Japanese in February 1942. In a remarkable tale of survival, he evaded capture and miraculously swam between islands to avoid enemy forces. Three years later, on 15 Aug…