The remarkable story of how Nick Phipps' grandfathers were POWs together in the Second World War

Jim Phipps and Ronnie McIntosh spent four years together in a Prisoner of War camp

When Australian rugby international Nick Phipps recounts the story of his grandfathers it seems scarcely credible.

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