Collected episode eight - Jim’s POW loin cloth

Jim Easton and Lou Engledow were young men thrown together in the Second World War as prisoners of the Japanese on the Burma-Thailand Railway. In Episode 8 of Collected, Louise Maher is shown a scrap of red fabric, snatched by Jim and saved by Lou, that bears witness to their friendship and survival.  

Presented by: Louise Maher
Produced by: Louise Maher
Interviewed:

• Dianne Rutherford, Curator Military Heraldry and Technology
• Dr Lachlan Grant, Senior Historian,
• Sarah Engledow, daughter of Lou Engledow

Oral history: Lou Engledow (Courtesy Sarah Engledow and Peter Rubenstein)
Original music: Andy Heaney – Vice Like Grip

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