Africa News of Thursday, 7 May 2020
Source: bbc.com
DR Congo mourns death of WW2 veteran
Corporal Miuki continued to tell stories of the war until his death
One of the Democratic Republic of Congo's last two remaining World War Two veterans has died.
Corporal Daniel Miuki was 95 and passed away on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
He was drafted into the Belgian colonial armed forces when he was still a student, along with thousands of other Congolese recruits.
He fought alongside Belgian combatants under the command of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in Asia against the Japanese.
Relatives and neighbours remember him as always happy to regale them with tales of the war and to sing them battlefield songs.
