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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 amputations; dysentry ward; effects of monsoon; ancedotes about medical incidents, John Taylor and food; lice and bugs; smallpox in native camp; outbreak of berri berri; altercation with British; praise for John Taylor; bamboo toothbushes; ANZAC days and reunions, after the war; mateship in the camps.
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Part 1 of NX65549 Sydney Kitchener Musgrove as a Private, 2/30 Battalion and prisoner of the Japanese, Burma-Thai railway, 1941-45, interviewed by Don Wall
Part 2 of NX65549 Sydney Kitchener Musgrove as a Private, 2/30 Battalion and prisoner of the Japanese, Burma-Thai railway, 1941-45, interviewed by Don Wall
(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 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 isolation of cholera patients; water shortages and contamination; maggot infested whale meat; reads extracts from diary about problems with command under difficult conditions A transcrip
Talks of the first stage of march, conditions and duties establishing cookhouses; bath at Thasoa (cemetery); next stop Konkoita and Taimonta; Burmese camp conditions alongside Australians; description
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
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