The International Friendship and Reconciliation Trust, of which Maj Malins was a former chairman, took up the project.
BBC: England
2.
Maj Philip Malins, from Solihull in the West Midlands was held by the Japanese in Burma during World War II.
BBC: England
3.
In 2010 Maj Malins also became only the second non-Japanese national to be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays for his reconciliation work.