NX36620 Donald Wall as a Private, 2/20 Battalion and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-45, reading from other POW journals

Thai-Burma Railway; learns of A force going to Burma to build airstrips; at 105 camp and bombing that killed 5 Australians; Ban Pong and Sergeant Don Gunner; Great World camp, (Changi) 1942 and Singapore Volunteer Force, Arthur Thompson from Windsor, Ontario - read from diary; Bompo cutting, elephants, conversation with a Japanese soldier and Australian 'Indians'; describes crossing bamboo scaffolding in truck at Wampo and condition of road; meeting Major Hunt at Tarsao and speaks of Toyama as a war criminal; describes train trip north from Singapore to Ban Pong; trading with Thai people at Ban Pong; formation of D and E forces; F Force overland from Changi to Thailand; fate of Major Johnson's gear; Japanese engineers HQ at Nieke. Hospital camp at Tanbaya and men standing in the river so fish could clean the ulcers; met Maurie Ferry, a journalist with Sydney Sun; continued high death toll; sick moved in late July by able men to Nieke camp; conditions at camp and constant rain; address by Colonel Dylon, a British officer cheered by Australians and his comments to Wall; punishment of thieves; deaths from cholera; about F force; hiding quinine.