This is the monarch’s complete message, launched on Friday to commemorate the top of the 2d Global Conflict on August 15 1945.
The King mentioned: “For the tens of millions of households collected round their wi-fi units, and for his or her family members nonetheless serving some distance from house, it was once the message a battle-weary global had lengthy prayed for.
“‘The battle is over’, declared my grandfather, King George VI, in his deal with to the country and Commonwealth on VJ Day 80 years in the past lately – 4 brief phrases after six lengthy years of bloodshed, worry and struggling.
“Seldom can a easy message have resonated with one of these potent mixture of aid, birthday celebration, and sorrow for individuals who by no means lived to peer the glow of freedom’s new daybreak.
“On at the moment of profound remembrance, I talk to you in that very same spirit of commemoration and birthday celebration as we honour anew all the ones whose carrier and sacrifice noticed the forces of liberty be triumphant.
“Whilst that ultimate victory in The Pacific was once accomplished below the strategic command of our steadfast American allies, the battle in South East Asia had reached its climax below the management of my nice uncle, Lord Mountbatten, from whom I realized such a lot concerning the specific horrors and heroism witnessed in the ones furthest fields of struggle.
“The forces aligned below him comprised over a million women and men, drawn from many various international locations, religions and communities, however united through not unusual function and indomitable spirit.
“Twenty-9 Victoria Crosses undergo eloquent testimony to their valour, however I do know complete smartly of the toll it took on such a lot of – measured now not handiest in gravestones, however within the psychological and bodily scars of those that survived.
“In spite of the unyielding reinforce in their trustworthy battlefield commander, Basic William Slender, the forces at the flooring from time to time thought to be themselves ‘the Forgotten Military’.
“However, as Patron of the now Burma Famous person Memorial Fund, and having attended probably the most nice Burma Famous person Reunions on the Albert Corridor with Lord Mountbatten when the Corridor was once full of hundreds of bemedalled veterans, it’s been my privilege to reassure the remainder veterans that they and their fallen comrades shall by no means be forgotten.
“Nor are they by myself in our ideas lately for, prime above the ones monsoon-lashed jungles Allied pilots displayed their very own fearless bravery, flying opponents, bombers and delivery airplane into enemy hearth and Nature’s fury.
“We recall, too, the prisoners of battle who persisted years of brutal captivity: the hunger, illness and cruelty that examined the very limits of human staying power.
“Blameless civilian populations of occupied territories confronted grievous hardships, too.
“Their revel in reminds us that battle’s true price extends past battlefields, touching each and every facet of lifestyles – a tragedy all-too vividly demonstrated through conflicts world wide lately.
“In this landmark anniversary, we must additionally pause to recognize that within the battle’s ultimate act, an immense value was once paid through the voters of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – a value we pray no country want ever pay once more.
“However in recalling such a lot struggling, we will have to now not lose sight of ways nice was once the reason and the way candy the victory. For the ones heroes of VJ Day gave us greater than freedom; they left us the instance of the way it can and will have to be secure.
“Nations and communities that had by no means ahead of fought in combination realized to co-ordinate their efforts throughout huge distances, faiths and cultural divides.
“In combination they proved that, in occasions of battle and in occasions of peace, the best guns of all aren’t the palms you undergo, however the palms you hyperlink.
“That is still an important lesson for our occasions.
“So as to the households of all those that served, and to that unfortunately dwindling band of veterans amongst us nonetheless, please know that the braveness and camaraderie displayed in humanity’s darkest hour is a flame that shall blaze for eternity – a beacon that honours our previous and guides our long term.
“Allow us to due to this fact pledge to be vigilant guardians of the values they bequeathed to us.
“And allow us to, above all, be mindful the epitaph within the Commonwealth Conflict Graves cemetery at the battlefield of Kohima: ‘When You Move House, Inform Them Of Us And Say, For Your The next day, We Gave Our Lately’.”
