A FORMER Atherton woman is making a film about prisoners of war and those who fought the Japanese in Burma during the Second World War.

Sue Robinson, whose late uncle, Sgt Bill Clift, served with the legendary Chindits -- has agreed to make a "living history" film on behalf of the Burma Star Association.

The film will be stored and go on sale at the Imperial War Museum, with proceeds from sales split between the Burma Star Association and the Far East Prisoner of War Association.

Sue, who now lives in Cornwall, said: "I'm making the video for the remaining people who are still alive -- it is a living history of those who were kept as prisoners of war by the Japanese and who fought in Burma."

Her uncle, Bill Clift, fought alongside Brigadier "Mad Mike" Calvert in Burma, as one of Major General Wingate's "Chindits" in the Second World War. His younger brother, Jimmy, served in the Royal Navy but was lost at sea when his ship, HMS Kite, was torpedoed by a German U-boat. The brothers and four sisters lived with their parents in Car Bank Square.

Sue will be attending a Burma Star Association reunion at the end of this month and intends travelling back to the north west before Christmas to interview survivors. She would like to contact any survivors from the Leigh area.

She said: "I'm planning to start filming at the reunion by interviewing some of the people there and recording their stories. I think this is an important thing to do."

She runs the website www.burmastar.org.uk which last year received more than 137,000 hits and also runs another www.chindit.org.uk dedicated to her uncle and the crack jungle fighters.