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#1 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:01 pm

I have been listening to this on BBC Radio 4...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01qldlt
The fall of Singapore
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In February 1942 when Singapore fell to Japanese forces, tens of thousands of Commonwealth soldiers became prisoners of war. They were sent to work in prison camps across South East Asia. Maurice Naylor was put to work building a railway bridge over a river in Thailand - the River Kwai. After World War Two ended, he typed up his memories of internment.

MAURICE NAYLOR CBE – GUNNER
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Re: Singapore

#2 Post by Pinky the pilot » Thu Mar 03, 2022 10:01 am

Might have a listen sometime.

My (Grand) Uncle went 'into the bag' at the fall of Singapore and finished the war as a slave labourer in a coal mine in Hokkaido, Japan.

Curiously, the mine is only about 35 km from where I go to fly a Glider Tug on my working holiday in Japan. :-o
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#3 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:14 pm

Pinky the pilot wrote:
Thu Mar 03, 2022 10:01 am
Might have a listen sometime.

My (Grand) Uncle went 'into the bag' at the fall of Singapore and finished the war as a slave labourer in a coal mine in Hokkaido, Japan.

Curiously, the mine is only about 35 km from where I go to fly a Glider Tug on my working holiday in Japan. :-o
I hadn't realised how many Australians were literally delivered fresh off the boat into Japanese hands right before Singapore surrendered.
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