| Accession Number | S04074 |
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| Collection type | Sound |
| Measurement | 2 hr 3 min |
| Object type | Oral history |
| Physical description | audio cassette; BASF chromdioxid C120; two track mono |
| Maker |
Berthold, Henry Charles Mallet Forwood, George Wesley Wall, Donald |
| Access | Open |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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| Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Permission of copyright holder required for any use and/or reproduction. |
NX31310 Henry Charles Mallet Berthold as a Private and NX37205 George Wesley Forwood as a Private, both 2/20 Australian Infantry Battalion and Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945, interviewed by Don Wall
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 of deaths and disease on trains; deaths from cholera; four brothers in F Force and others enlisting under assumed names; stories at Tanbaya camp; relief from scabbies; vitamin defiencies; working in hospital ulcer ward; musicians in the camp; condition of British POWs; met nurses Anderson and Bullwinkel; end of tape - background radio noise; reminiscences about other POWs, men of the 2/20 Australian Infantry Battalion and antics of C Company.
A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please contact the Sound section.
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NX31310 Henry Charles Mallet Berthold as a Private and NX37205 George Wesley Forwood as a Private, both 2/20 Australian Infantry Battalion and Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945, interviewed by Don Wall
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NX31310 Henry Charles Mallet Berthold as a Private and NX37205 George Wesley Forwood as a Private, both 2/20 Australian Infantry Battalion and Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945, interviewed by Don Wall