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13 February 1942

Troops To Changi

TO CHANGI BARRACKS

Food

Returned To Unit

Concrete Floor Was Bed

New Testament Returned

JAPANESE TAKE OVER SINGAPORE   

TANGLIN BARRACKS, SINGAPORE   

The Barracks

Allocated To Cook-House

Labourers For The Japanese

Drugs And Medicines

Blackouts

BACK TO CHANGI

Four Months At Changi

Black Jack's Drill Squad

Harold Nixon

THAILAND

MAP (Railway and P.O.W. Camps)

Train To Banpong, Thailand

Conditions On Train

Hazards

Marched To Kanburi

TARSO CAMP

To Tarso In Trucks

Start Work On Railway

Dysentery

Bashings

Tarso North

A Python

Guard Ate Snake's Heart

SOUTH TONCHAN (WATERFALL) CAMP

To South Tonchan

Cuttings For Rail Line

Japanese Falls Down Gorge

CHOLERA OUTBREAK

Cholera From Native Camp

Geoff Beaven

Sick With Undiagnosed Fever

Epidemic Halted Construction

No Rest For The Fit

Maxi Lawrence

STRICT CAMP HYGIENE

Jungle Scoured For Bodies

Sterilised Water And Utensils

Shielded From Tasks

Diverted A Beast

TONCHAN CENTRAL, HINTOK, KENYU

Moved Again

Weary Dunlop

Hellfire Pass

Herb McMillan

Back To Tonchan Central

Hot Springs Healed Ulcers

FLY CAMP

To Fly Camp

No Rations

Mick Warren

Rail Line Complete

Tommy Warfield

BURMA THAI BORDER

Rin Tin Camp

Elephants

Tigers

PACK OF CARDS BRIDGE

The Bridge

Near Miss By Train

Saved A Japanese

TAMPI CAMP

Train Disaster

An Elephant

Malaria

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