Eric William Bradley Cordingly MBE (17 May 1911 – 14 August 1976[1]) was the Anglican Bishop of Thetford from 1963 until his death in 1976.
[2][3] Cordingly studied theology at King's College London[4] and St Stephen's House, Oxford before his ordinations.
After the start of World War II, Cordingly joined as an army chaplain in a territorial battalion of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
The site is now commemorated at the Changi Museum, which contains the original cross that Cordingly used during his wartime church services.
He later wrote about this experience in a book, Beyond Hatred, calling it "To me a year—the toughest of my life, grim and shocking as it was—which on reflection I would not have missed.