During our first few weeks as P.O.W. the food supplied by the Japanese was mainly rice and we had boiled...
One side was bounded by the river, one by the railway, one by jungle, and the last by a clearing which was...
We had no grammar or other text books; however I had a New Testament, given to me by our village Free...
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There are several varieties of this parasite, some also cause the dreaded ‘black water fever’...
If a rat were trapped in the end of a long bamboo, and made to tunnel its way through the sections to...
An old timer in the hut told me of a spot in the camp boundary where Thais came along at night to...
I was still in hospital when a trainload of wounded Jap soldiers passed through the station on their way...
Of course we got our own back on the Jap's in various ways, for instance, during the building of a new...
The Japs kept their meat ration in the form of live pigs in an enclosure on the edge of the camp, and...
I used the railway line to form the lintel which carried the top brickwork and chimney, and completed the...
Our wooden buckets weighed as much as the two gallons of water they held, and if the Japs had not used all...
From now on, there was also to be a party of prisoners working on the unenviable task of salvaging...
A party of Japs appeared from the station hut carrying buckets of rice, which they placed beside the train,...
Like thousands of other prisoners my father was put to work on the infamous “Birma railway”,...
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I left this camp some weeks later with a party of prisoners of war and Japanese guards; we walked a...
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