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| Videos |
| Excerpts of video taped interveiws conducted by Lt. Col. Peter Winstanley OAM RFD JP |
| Rowley Richards Part 1 |
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Training and fighting in Singapore 1941 and 1942. Early days as a POW. |
| Rowley Richards Part 2 |
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A POW with “A” Force sent to Burma May 42. Contact with Captain Bill Drower a British Officer who was an interpreter with “A” Force. Concerts. Joining of the railway 17 October 1943. Movement to Thailand.. Praise for his Medical Orderlies. |
| Rowley Richards Part 3 |
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Transported by ship to Japan.. Sinking of his ship the Rakyuo Maru. On lifeboat rowing to China. Sakata POW camp Japan. POW labour leased to Japanese industry. Japanese Medical Orderly. The Factors of Survival. |
| Rowley Richards Part 4 |
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In Burma. Dutch chemist Van Boxtell. Lt Col Coates the greatest doctor on the Burma Thailand Railway. In Saigon, the Brits accused Aussies of exaggerating conditions on the Railway. |
| Captain (doctor) Peter Hendry - part 1 |
Prisoner of War Experiences. Captain (doctor) Peter Hendry speaks about the April 1943 march by 7,000 POWs as part of F-Force from Banpong (after 5 day train journey Singapore to Thailand crammed into steel rice trucks) to the Thailand Burma border. This was in over 40 degree centigrade heat, on jungle tracks of mud over 18 nights. This force had a very high death rate- over 60% British and 29% Australians. |
| Captain (doctor) Peter Hendry - part 2 |
Captain (doctor) Peter Hendry speaks about some of the people forming F-Force on the Burma Thailand Railway during the second world war. Includes comments about Medical Officers Bruce Hunt, Lloyd Cahill, Frank Cahill, Colin Juttner, Bon Rogers, Roy Stevens, Roy Mills etc, British officer Lt Col Harris and the Japanese commander Colonel Banno. |
More coming soon... |
