NX42191 Keith Botterill as a Private, 2/19 Battalion and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-45, interviewed by Don Wall

Accession Number S04080
Collection type Sound
Measurement 8 hr 3 min
Object type Oral history
Physical description audio cassette; TDK D90; two track mono
Maker Botterill, Keith
Wall, Donald
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Description

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; changes of guards; trail and contact with Japanese after the war; first shooting of a POW; discussion about route of march; Saturday night fights; meeting up of escape group; discuss discrepancies of other accounts; POW sign on hill outside camp, removed by Japanese; English POWs.
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