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VJ DAY 80 COMMEMORATION

Held at the LONG SHOP MUSEUM
on AUGUST 2026

For photos of the 2025 event please click here.

On Saturday 16 August, the Leiston Branch of the ‘Friends of the Suffolk Regiment’ and ‘Royal British Legion’ will hold their annual service of commemoration at the Long Shop Museum to remember those from the town who served in the Far East between 1942 and 1945.

For those who may be unaware, the Long Shop Museum is home to a unique war memorial. There, framed upon its walls, is a Union Flag that has special significance to many men of the town who fought in the Far East with the Suffolk Regiment, and who were later taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore.