Running time
54 sec
Place made
Australia
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Bert Beecham talks about the terrible treatment of the POWs by the Japanese on the Burma-Thailand railway and the awful conditions of the camp.
Transcript
The treatment of the POWs working on the railway line was absolutely horrendous. Not only in the way they were treated, the way they were fed, the way they were beaten, they way they were abused, the way they had no clothing.
Some of 'em were working in bare feet and a piece of rag tied 'round their waist ...
The food was disgusting if you got it at all, sometimes twice a day, at one stage there we got it once a day and people were dying like flies.
We had cholera, we had malaria, we had dysentery, we had scrub typhus, we had beri beri.