The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 massacre and who was responsible. Men at Tanbaya; Major Bruce Hunt as a POW of Japanese; patients being used at Nieki to test depth of water on road; description of Tahsoa POW camp and beating of Major Hunt; march to Tanbaya; comments about Weiry Dunlop; Pat Wolf, Indian in British(?) army; messages to POWs; conditions for officers; senior officers at Tanbaya; regard for major Hunt. Death and diseases of POWs, Thai-Burma railway POW camp; messages to Tanbaya POW camp; capitulation of Italy; march at Ban Pong POW camp and story of piano accordion with radio; killing of a yak; humorous stories - selling monopoly money to Japanese guards; story of latrine at Tanbaya; officer's ward; praise for Major Hunt; Don Wall talks about writing his books; fate of Major Hunt and loss of men in F force.
Part 1 of NX53459 Gordon Nichol as a Sergeant, 2/3 Motor Ambulance Convoy and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-1945, inverviewed by Don Wall
Part 2 of NX53459 Gordon Nichol as a Sergeant, 2/3 Motor Ambulance Convoy and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-1945, inverviewed by Don Wall
Part 3 of NX53459 Gordon Nichol as a Sergeant, 2/3 Motor Ambulance Convoy and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-1945, inverviewed by Don Wall
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
Talks of the march to Lower Nieki POW camp, first cholera death; plan to help stragglers; arrival at Nieki and monsoons; low moral and pep talk by major Bruce Hunt; treatment of ulcers and amputation
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 Singap
(Smith known as Pierce in service) Sonkurai, British camp, warning about condition of men before marching in; offer of rice to Australians from British POWs; feels that the British troops were let dow
Talks of clearing jungle for wood at camp; burning and death of electrician; return to Ranau 1981; stories of eating a pawpaw tree; Address by Hoshi to officers on 'humiliation day' at end of 1942; ch
Anecdotes and stories of POWs in camps (mainly at Neiki) on Thai-Burma Railway; Forwood as a cook for the Japanese; contracting berri berri; Japanese guards and officers; remedies for cholera; story o