Arthur Frederick Gigger as a signalman, 8 Corps of Signals and POW, 1940-1946, Second World War, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton

Accession Number	AWM2018.572.21
Collection type	Sound
Object type	Oral history
Physical description	audio cassette; TEAC CDX60
Maker	Gigger, Arthur Frederick
Place made	Australia: South Australia, Adelaide, Enfield
Date made	29 October 2001
Access	Open
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright
Copying Provisions	Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.
Source credit to	This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Description

SX7678 Signalman (Sig) Arthur Frederick Gigger, 8 Corps of Signals, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937–1947" oral history project. The interview covers Sig Gigger's experience as a young person living through the Second World War, including his prewar clerical employment and social life; his attendance at Methodist Church; his enlistment and many illnesses; the fall of Singapore; conditions as a prisoner of war at Changi and Fukuoka in Japan; not experiencing the 'mateship' at Changi; being sent down Japanese mines and working in Kobe shipyards; being sent to clean up Kobe after it was flattened; seeing the mushroom cloud at Nagasaki; American air raids over Japan and the liberation of its allied prisoners of war; returning home after the war to a wife that "didn't want" him; and his previous family history from 1929 to 1939.

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