Video Section. There will continue to be new video interviews conducted by Lt. Col. Peter Winstanley OAM RFD (retired) JP on the website. There are now 24 interviews on the website and another 30 to add. Eventually, all the video interviews will be placed on the website when our webmaster (Trevor Lancaster) has the time to work on them. Click here to go to the video page.

Additional material on this site. I continue to receive material and information, which has real relevance to the experiences of POWs of the Japanese. To honour the efforts of those people, it will be my privilege to include their material.

Assistance Requested. Readers would be aware that my initial objective was to record something of the 43 Australian Medical Officers who were on the Burma Thailand Railway. To that end I have only the following to cover-

•         Majors Bruce Hunt, Ernie Marsden, Alan Hobbs, Lyall Andrews and
•         Captains Dick Parker, Reg Wright
•         Lt Colonel Weary Dunlop will have a light coverage, as there has been so much already published about him.    

I would be interested in receiving information about lesser known POW camps which were occupied in 1945. By that I mean Nakhon Nyok, Pitsanaloke, Lopburi, Katchu Mountain Camp, Nakhon Pathom. I have now visited these areas and had an 80% success in searching for particular locations. Two areas remain of interest, being Takri (or Takli) north of Nakhon Nayok and Kachu Mountain Camp being in the area of Phetburi south of Banpong. One must never forget that there were many POWs who suffered in other places including, the Sumatra Railway, Hainan Island, Timor, Ambon, Korea, Manchuria and those who were sent directly to Japan. Any information about these latter areas would be appreciated.  

Clarifying a matter. I need to clarify a matter which has been raised with me. I receive no financial reward maintaining this website nor for running the Remembrance Day Trips to Thailand. The trips started as a once only Remembrance Day trip for the Defence Reserves Association in 2001. Then I was asked by the President of the RSL in Western Australia to help two veterans who had run Anzac Day trips to Thailand for a number of years. I ran the Anzac Day trips 2001 to 2004 and have run the annual Defence Reserves Association trips also since 2001. Any surplus from our DRA trips goes to the Defence Reserves Association WA. Usually my airfare and accommodation is covered. As a family, between the trips and the website, we have spent around $50,000 over the ten years. This does not allow for the intellectual input. The research has involved travelling to all states other than the Northern Territory and Tasmania to interview ex POWs and to travel to the Imperial War Museum in London and the National Archives in Singapore and to visit Kuala Lumpur to do research, including visiting the Pudu Gaol site.

Were it not for the generosity of my webmaster Trevor Lancaster, I would have difficulty in maintaining the website (The website has now gone over 503,000 hits).

Submissions & information welcome,
Please use the contact page or email: pgwinstanley@cambraivillage.com.au