A LECTURE on a Second World War hero and doctor is taking place in Colchester.
The talk, titled Unspoken Valour, will be delivered by Michael Green, who has written a book about soldier and doctor Tom Cullen with the same name.
Tom, a Kelvedon farmer's son, excelled at Colchester Royal Grammar School before studying medicine.
He qualified just as the Second World War broke out and joined the RAF, where he was decorated for "devotion to duty and courage of the highest order".
Captured in 1941, he managed to escape and return to active service.
After the war, he was part of the generation of doctors who helped to establish the NHS, and lived to the age of 102.
The talk will take place at Lion Walk Church on Tuesday, September 15, at 2.30pm.
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Admission is £5 at the door, or £3 for members.
This is the second in a series of autumn lectures hosted by the Friends of Colchester Museums, the first of which focused on the various carvings found around Colchester.
The Friends of Colchester Museums are interested in finding out the story behind the carvings of two children over the entrance to Lloyds Bank in High Street.
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