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2/20th Battalion

A.I.F.

This is the true story of Elliott McMaster's service with "A" Company, 2/20th Battalion, 8th Division of the Australian Infantry Forces (A.I.F.) during World War II.

He enlisted in 1941, faced advancing Japanese forces on the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, was captured by the Japanese and spent years as a Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) in Singapore and "D" Force on the Burma Thailand (Death) Railway.

Near the end of the war, some time after midnight, English commandos surrounded a stopped P.O.W. train in which he was confined at Ratburi, Thailand and the prisoners were free at last.

The story ends in 1945, after his repatriation back to Australia and return to his home near the small village of Nabiac (close to Forster / Tuncurry and between Newcastle and Port Macquarie) in New South Wales.

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