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Thailand. c. 1943. The main road from Thailand to Burma. During monsoon period, this road was the only line of communication & thousands of POWs trudged through mud to various camps along its route. A common sight before railway was completed was also the passage of hardy young Japanese troops on their way to the Burma front.
STEFFONI & BOB BRACKENBURY POW MEMORIAL FEB 2012 SERVICE STEFFONI, DAU OF KALGOORLIE BOY TED KEATING 2/6TH FIELD PARK & ONE OF ‘THREE MUSKETEERS’ ARRESTED, TORTURED, BEATEN, STARVED & SENT FROM SANDAKAN TO KUCHING FOR JAPANESE MILITARY TRIAL – JENSEN & MARSHALL SENTENCED TO OUTRAM ROAD GAOL – TRAGICALLY TED KEATING DIED KUCHING 1944 PRIOR TO HIS TRIAL . HIS DEATH WAS RESULT OF EXTENSIVE & SEVERE BEATINGS, TORTURE.
TAKEN FEB 2012 POW MEMORIAL KINGS PARK
TAWI TAWI , PHILIPPINES – FIRST STOP FOR ‘EVEN E’ FORCE AUSTRALIAN POW ESCAPEES FROM BERHALA ISLAND, SANDAKAN, NORTH BORNEO 1943 FISHERMEN FROM TAWI TAWI HAD BEEN TRADING WITH SANDAKAN FOR DECADES
WX16675 PTE RUPERT JOHN MILLOUSE 2/4TH MGB BADLY WOUNDED 11/2/42 JAPANESE AMBUSH OF E COY SW BUKIT TIMAH, SINGAPORE, UNABLE TO WALK UNAIDED, MILLHOUSE HID. FINALLY ASSISTED BY OTHER 2/4TH SOLDIERS – CAPTURED BY JAPANESE – EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD 19 FEB 42 AGED 23 YEARS,
MRS GLAD COWIE (nee SKIPPER) d. 6 APRIL 2026 AGED 102 YEARS – WIDOW OF THE LATE HAROLD JOHN COWIE WX8641 WHO SURVIVED ‘F’ FORCE THAILAND GLAD ATTENDED ALL 2/4TH EVENTS ,SERVICES & WAS AN ACTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER OF POW ASSOC. WA WE WILL MISS HER SMILING FACE – GOD SPEED GLAD!
4 SEPT 1945, MANILA FORMER POWS BEING INOCULATED BY AUSTRALIAN NURSES
FORMER POWS ENJOY THE ROLE REVERSAL
Happy travel group Identities unknown Daphne Wilson is right front
‘Old’ Boys & former POWs Ron Badock, Dick Ridgwell, Johnny Gilmour with 2/4th members – Kings Park POW Memorial
JIMMY DARLINGTON FIGHTING RON SYKES FOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION ON BOARD ‘QUEEN MARY’ SAILING TO SINGAPORE PLEASE READ THE STORY
EUROPEAN CHILDREN FREED FROM INCARCERATION LINTANG COMPOUND, KUCHING, BORNEO SEP 1945