The life story of just an ordinary bloke who says he was "bloody lucky"
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| adam_text | Contents
Foreword
.................................. iv
From the Author
...............................
v¡
Acknowledgements
..............................
v ii
List of Illustrations and Maps
.......................... xi
1.
Pioneer Stock
.............................. 1
2.
The Young Apprentice
.......................... 8
3.
The Adventure Begins
..........................
Ю
4.
The
105
to the Rescue
........................... 16
5.
We Become POWs
............................ 21
6.
Welcome to Burma
............................ 24
7.
Early Camps
.............................. 27
8. 105
Kilo
................................ 36
9.
Tamarkan
............................... 44
10.
Saigon
................................. 48
11.
Singapore Again
............................. 56
12.
The Awa
Maru
............................. 61
13.
Down the Mines
............................. 63
14.
Free at Last
............................... 66
15.
Going Home
.............................. 72
16.
Home
................................. 78
17.
My First Year back in Japan
........................ 82
18.
Life with the 66th
............................. 95
19.
The Occupation
-
Looking Back
...................... 102
20.
Publican Jack
.............................. 106
21.
Farming and Other Preoccupations
..................... 40
22.
Return to the River Kwai
.........................
I19
23.
A Trip to Japan
..............................
123
Soldier Poets
.................................
135
The Dilemma
.............................
143
Why?
................................... 149
Letter from Taeko
...............................
I52
Cowra
...................................
154
List Of Maps
&
Illustrations
Maps:
Japanese Expansion
1942............................. xiv
Author s travels during World Warll
......................... xv
A Force Camps
................................ xvi
The Siam-Burma Railway
............................ xvii
Map of Japan
.................................. xviii
Illustrations:
Certificate of descent
............................... 2
Dad
&
family in front of the home his father built
................... 3
Dad photographed at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
.................. 3
Mum, in her late teens
.............................. 5
Dad with his charabanc in St George s Terrace,
1925................. 5
VH-UPD
................................... 6
Dad after completing the first solo flight to the North West
................ 6
Dad on his round Australia flight in URB
....................... 7
Me at three with baby sister June
.......................... 8
The four young Thorpe children in
1933....................... 8
With my friend, Eric Devereux, from HMAS Sydney
.................. 12
Me photographed at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem,
1941................ 14
Letter to my father informing him that I had probably been taken POW
............ 20
Five cent note, used during Japanese occupation of Java
................. 21
One cent note, Japanese occupation of Singapore
................... 24
Typical hut interior
............................... 26
Entrance to camp at Thanbyuzayat, Burma
...................... 29
A Force laying track
.............................. 30
Five cent note given me by a Burmese man
...................... 34
Men on half rations because they were too sick to work
................. 36
Japanese film crew
............................... 38
Basil Clarke. A brave bloke
............................ 40
POW post card provided by the Japanese Army
.................... 53
Letter from HQ re a post card that the Japanese used for propaganda
........... 54
My mate Peter Gray before he became a POW.
................... 58
Camp
22
at Iizuka
............................... 63
A bank note given to me by a Chinese POW.
.................... 69
Nagasaki after the bomb
............................. 70
Nagasaki after the bomb, showing building still standing
................ 70
Anine
year old Japanese boy s drawing of a food drop
................. 70
Telegram to Mum, telling her I d been freed
..................... 72
xi
POWs having a shower in decontamination and delousing unit
.............. 73
Victory bank note issued in Manila
......................... 74
Prisoner of War Post. I received this in Manila
.................... 74
Cleaned and fattened up. Fred Skeels, Spud Muiphy
&
me in Manila
........... 75
Message from the King and Queen received on return home
............... 77
Ration card for cigarettes and sweets, while in Hollywood Hospital
............ 80
Superstructure of sunken battleship Yamato in
Kure
harbour,
1946............. 82
66 1 Battalion disembarking at
Kure
......................... 82
Front page of first issue of BCON
-
the BCOF newspaper
............... 83
The vehicle park in the snow
........................... 84
Me, in winter uniform
.............................. 84
Vehicle Park,
Kure
............................... 85
Aussies
&
Tommies on parade at
Kure
........................ 85
Truck used for carrying people and materials
..................... 85
With water carrier truck taken on bivouacs
...................... 85
View of Hiroshima in
1946............................ 85
Bridge in Hiroshima
............................... 85
Devastation as far as the eye can see
........................ 86
Humpy on the outskirts of Hiroshima
........................ 87
66
Battalion Camp at Hiro. Landslide in background
................. 88
66th Battalion on parade at Hiro, September
1946................... 88
Lt. Colonel Colvin inspecting 66th Battalion at Hiro
.................. 88
A honey cart
................................. 91
Paddy fields near Hiro
.............................. 91
A street in Hiro
................................. 92
Family in traditional dress
............................ 92
Family in traditional dress
............................ 92
The gateway to the temple grounds in Hiro
...................... 92
Boy beating a drum at the Hiro festival
....................... 92
The 66th Battalion rehearsing for guard duty at the Imperial Palace
............. 93
Tokyo
1946.................................. 93
Palace Heights-the home of the WAACs girls
.................... 94
A huge garrison gun on an island near
Kure
...................... 94
Some of the lads with large gun they have just disabled
................. 94
The staff of the hotel at Gamagori
......................... 95
The hotel at Gamagori, taken from the sacred island of Takashima
............. 96
One of the Battalion launches used on patrols
..................... 96
Visiting a temple on weekend leave
......................... 98
On weekend leave with two mates, Brereton and Taylor
.................
°°
Japanese children at a school I visited
........................ 99
My discharge papers
...............................
Combined leave pass/train ticket, for second class
tra
vel................
After a football match at Hiroshima
.........................
Battalion sports day in the Olympic stadium at Hiroshima
................
хи
Painting from the album sent me by my friend, Shieichi Tamai
.............. 104
With family, after receiving Order of Australia Medal in
2001..............
Ill
Anzac Day
2000.
Posing with guest speaker Sir Charles Court
.............. 113
Children from the Three Springs area. Quiet Lion Tour of
1987.............. 116
Carnamah District High School students in their Quiet Lion T-shirts
............ 116
Some students from the Quiet Lion Tours at the reception held
when I received my OAM
......................... 116
Jock Bingham and me with Colonel
Coates
daughter Winifred
.............. 116
Betty, Joanne and I at Kanchnaburi War Cemetery,
1974................. 119
Peter and I on the River Kwai Bridge,
1987...................... 120
With Yoshiko, Peter, Taeko and
Nori
at the Yokohama POW Cemetery
........... 126
Memorial to POWs at Joetsu Peace Park
....................... 128
With Japanese friends in front of the Yushukan War Museum
............... 131
Members of the Joetsu-Australia Society waiting to catch the ferry
............ 133
Author with Miyoko Nishishiro in Perth
....................... 133
Australian troops on Labuan hearing the news of the Japanese surrender.
......... 145
Japanese soldiers coming in to surrender on Labuan
.................. 145
Japanese prisoners being transported after their surrender on Labuan
............ 145
Copy of Surrender document
........................... 146
Part of the front page of Guinea Gold before Japanese
s
urrender
............. 147
Part of the front page of Guinea Gold annoucing cease fire
............... 148
Alexander Downer presenting award to Taeko, Yoshiko and
Nori
............. 154
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