Running time
1 min 19 sec
Date made
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
Oh, well they realised, all of my mates, whatever we did, we always did it together. I was in the Cameron Highlanders, the militia before the war, and then we all decided we'd join the AIF. My brother, he had to put his age up, and mum and dad agreed to say he could go with us. Yeah. But I didn't go to the Burma Railway.
See, I was in the Changi Hospital when he went up north to work on the Burma Railway. So I didn't know he was alive myself until I got released and back in Manila. That's when they put lists up of prisoners that were recovered, and that's when I realised my brother was still alive, and two of my mates as well. One was all right. Two was all right. But one of them had died.
