Fergus Gordon Anckorn (10 December 1918 – 22 March 2018)[1] was a British soldier who, as starting as the conjurer Wizardus at age 18, was the longest-serving member of the Magic Circle.[2]
Anckorn was born on 10 December 1918 in Dunton Green and educated at The Judd SchoolinTonbridge. At the age of eighteen, he became the youngest member of the Magic Circle.[3] 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.[4]
He was interviewed about his war experiences.[5] He died of bladder cancer on 22 March 2018 aged 99.[6]
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