A WITNEY road could be named in honour of Arthur Titherington, the former PoW who fought tirelessly for an apology from Japan.

Witney Town Council wants a street in a future development named after the former mayor.

The veteran fought for decades for an apology from the Japanese government for the country’s treatment of PoWs during the Second World War.

He died in September last year, aged 88.

Town councillor Brenda Churchill, who said the council would press housing developers to consider using Mr Titherington’s name, told the Oxford Mail: “He is the one man that does deserve to have a road named after him.”

Mr Titherington spent more than three years working in the copper mines in Formosa, now Taiwan, after he was captured during the fall of Singapore in 1942.

He was one of only 90 PoWs out of 522 at the camp who survived.

During his campaign Mr Titherington met almost every Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary to hold office.

The PoWs were paid £76.10 by Japan in 1953, and were given £10,000 compensation by the British Government in 2000.

Mr Titherington died without receiving the apology he wanted from the Japanese, but fellow campaigner Syd Tavender said then that the campaign would go on.