NX33524 Frank Hole and Edward Gerrard Derkenne, sergeant, 2/20 Battalion and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-1945, interviewed by Don Wall

Talks of early capture by Japanese of Frank Hole (NX33524), Merv Alchin (NX31444) and Donaldson (?) in Malaya; about Charlie Moses; encounter with cobra; [unidentified 3rd person - meeting of brother of British POW who died at Konkoita, Thai-Burma railway; at Kinsoiquka, retrieving a blanket from a cholera victim; punishment of a thief; cholera victims; stories of POWs in Japan]; B29s over Japan late June 1945(?); building air-raid shelter; seeing Nagasaki bomb; cattle drive; British cholera victim. Stories about rationing and Americans self inflicted wounds to escape working in the mines; praying while being tortured; favouritism of interpreters; loss of legs due to torture; humorous stories about distribution of Red Cross parcels and end of war; Japanese leave the camp; issue of ammunition to Chinese; suppy drops to POWs; detour of plane over POW camp to drop a parcel for a mate; praise for American troops; sight of first American nurse; trading and souvenirs. Mentioned: M H Alchin (NX31444), F Hole (NX33524), C J A Moses (NX12404)
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