Fergus Anckorn

Fergus Gordon Anckorn (10 December 1918 – 22 March 2018)[1][2] was a British soldier who, as starting as the conjurer Wizardus at age 18, was the longest-serving member of the Magic Circle.[3]

Anckorn was born on 10 December 1918 and, at the age of eighteen, became the youngest member of the Magic Circle.[4] During World War II, he served in the British Army, was captured by the Japanese during the fall of Singapore, and forced, as a prisoner of war, to work on the Burma Railway and the famous bridge on the River Kwai.[5] He died of bladder cancer on 22 March 2018.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Fergus Anckorn: The Conjuror on the Kwai". fepowhistory.com. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Japanese PoW camp survivor who inspired BGT magician dies aged 99". dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  3. ↑ Jack Malvern (30 May 2016), "TV show's old soldier whose best trick was staying alive", The Times
  4. ↑ "Captive Memories", Far East Prisoner of War (FEPOW), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2007
  5. ↑ Torture, starvation and heartache: the life of a POW soldier, BBC, 13 November 2014
  6. ↑ "Fergus Anckorn obituary". 6 April 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2018 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
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