Career
Halliday"s participation was remarkable as he had been a prisoner of war in the Far East from 1942 to 1945 having been captured when Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942. He had weighed little more than 6 stone (38 kg) after three years as a PoW, including working on the Burma Railway. He worked on the coal gang at Kearsley Power Station and later became the Electricity Board"s chief safety officer, travelling around the country lecturing men on how to lift heavy bags or dig holes.