WX11105 Ada Corbitt 'Mickey' Syer as a Captain, Australian Army Nursing Service and NX59288 Leslie William Joseph Bond as a Private, all 2/20 Battalion, both prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945, interviewed by Don Wall

[interview possibly continues from S04057] Syer talks about Vivian Bullwinkel hiding from the Japanese and finding wounded Englishman, Kingsley from ship HMS Prince of Wales; wound septic and soldier very ill; found by local people; Bullwinkel finds bodies of men from Vyner Brooke massacre; tries to bury some; helped by local women but men afraid of Japanese and reprisals; villages being burned; eventually picked up by two Japanese officers in a car and taken to camp with other POW nurses; Kingsley dies that night; Bullwinkel suffering from infected mosquito bites. Media rush back in Singapore; controversy over documentary. - Break in recording -

[11min 35 sec] - Recording resumes with Leslie Bond present - Palembang POW camp on Sumatra; allied aircraft dropping bomb (part of B29 raid launched from India); received Red Cross parcels. Les Bond making torpedoes at Toya steel and story of Joe loosing toe; description of planes fly over, one the 'Anola Gay' on training run; buried burned school children in mass grave in Kobi; talks about Horton, Captain in English Middlesex Battalion; describes typhoon that hit some ships and planes on way home; describes his trip home on hospital ship.
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