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.