The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Thai-Burma Railway; learns of A force going to Burma to build airstrips; at 105 camp and bombing that killed 5 Australians; Ban Pong and Sergeant Don Gunner; Great World camp, (Changi) 1942 and Singapore Volunteer Force, Arthur Thompson from Windsor, Ontario - read from diary; Bompo cutting, elephants, conversation with a Japanese soldier and Australian 'Indians'; describes crossing bamboo scaffolding in truck at Wampo and condition of road; meeting Major Hunt at Tarsao and speaks of Toyama as a war criminal; describes train trip north from Singapore to Ban Pong; trading with Thai people at Ban Pong; formation of D and E forces; F Force overland from Changi to Thailand; fate of Major Johnson's gear; Japanese engineers HQ at Nieke. Hospital camp at Tanbaya and men standing in the river so fish could clean the ulcers; met Maurie Ferry, a journalist with Sydney Sun; continued high death toll; sick moved in late July by able men to Nieke camp; conditions at camp and constant rain; address by Colonel Dylon, a British officer cheered by Australians and his comments to Wall; punishment of thieves; deaths from cholera; about F force; hiding quinine.
Part 1 of NX36620 Donald Wall as a Private, 2/20 Battalion and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-45, reading from other POW journals
Part 2 of NX36620 Donald Wall as a Private, 2/20 Battalion and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-45, reading from other POW journals
Talks of F Force and Major Hunt; effects of cholera and long lasting effects of malaria; white flowers on Mothers Day; last days before fall of Singapore; nurses of Alexandria Hospital; hospital massa
Talks of 'Merrett force' Singapore and Japanese invasion; 2/18 Battalion over-run; discussion about official diary written in Changi; rumour regarding Asherton ambush; formation of A force in Changi;
Talks of the train to Ban Pong, the Japanese military's use of "comfort women" [women enslaved for sexual abuse]; 180 mile march to Sonkurai camp; smoke torture; worsening conditions on march; road wo
Starts by correction of recollections of events at Changi in another book. As a POW 'D' Force - talks about receiving Red Cross parcel; 13 March 1943 - first 500 POWs to leave Changi /Singapore by tra
Talks about events before fall of Singapore; crossing Kranji River; attacked by Japanese plane; swim across river; carrying wounded Australian asked British Brigadier to take the wounded man in his ca
Experiences as a medical orderly on the Thai-Burma railway and other POW camps; describes illnesses, caring for sick men, conditions at camps and ancedotes; stories about John Quigley (medical assista