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When we were released, we were released up there at the Seven Pagoda Pass and entrained down to, eventually got finished up in Singapore. There was 20 of us, and fortunately we were flown home. See, a lot of the boys come back by ship. We came back on the Duke of York's plane, the Endeavour, the York plane. All the centre was taken out, mattresses and that. About 20 of us were flown home on that and landed at Parafield, taken to Wayfield and my wife who had been waiting five years.
We were engaged before we left, and I think that's what kept me alive. She was there, my auntie was there. I can remember the horrored look on her face because when we were in Singapore, the temperature being like it is there, they'd given us these towels. I had this wet towel, and she thought they had cut me throat.
But anyway, all the boys, they all got missed. There was two of us. We had to go to hospital. We had helminthiasis. That's a hookworm. So the two of us, we had to go to hospital, and the rest come home, so.
