Running time
49 sec
Date made
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
About a week, two weeks later, I got the greatest dose of malaria you've ever seen in your life. Now, because the Japs had agreed to Major Woods and to Colonel Dunlop to build a shower in our camp, which we didn't have, so the boys could come. And they built it all out of bamboo. Now, if they hadn't have got that agreement from the Japs, I wouldn't be here today. Because my temperature was up to 107.2.
It was four o'clock in the afternoon. I can just remember Dunlop saying, "We'll just strap him under the shower." And that's what they did. I sat on, because it gets very cold in the tropics. In the morning, I was about one point off of normal. In about three days, I was out. I still had the malaria, but I was fit enough to go to work.
