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Accession Number | AWM2018.572.56 |
Collection type | Sound |
Object type | Oral history |
Physical description | audio cassette; TEAC CDX1 |
Maker |
Venables, Maxwell Roy Houghton, Alison Viney |
Place made | Australia: South Australia, Glenelg |
Date made | 2001-10-15 |
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. |
Maxwell Roy Venables interviewed as a private, 8th Division Ammunition Sub Park, Singapore and POW Changi, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton
SX9086 Maxwell Roy Venables interviewed as a private, 8th Division Ammunition Sub Park, by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937-1947" oral history project. The interview covers topics related to his service in Singapore and period as a prisoner of war at Changi and on the Burma Thai Railway, such as: family, work and social life from 1937 to his enlistment in 1940; riking bikes locally; HMAS Sydney; the fall of Singapore; the Japanese salvage of cars for scrap; forced march to Songkurai; health issues; building the Changi Airfield; life at Changi Gaol including overcrowding, and the garden; stories about the liberation of the POWs at the end of the war; returing home via Darwin and Cairns; being welcomed back in Sydney; travelling in New Zealand after the war.
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Maxwell Roy Venables interviewed as a private, 8th Division Ammunition Sub Park, Singapore and POW Changi, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton