Alex parky

Winging it thru life. Stonemason, imps fan ,whippet owner and battlefield/SWPA enthusiast. Love a good bike ride too.

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Australia will be there. OTD in 1940
As Britain still reels from the Dunkirk evacuation a convoy slips into a Scottish port , its content?
A fighting formation of the Australian Imperial Forces

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@Michael61010189 Going off his N.O.K his father was in NSW too.

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Hard as nails.
Thai Burma railway
1943.
George Parfrey, Victorian wheat farmer and 2/30th Battalion member.
Worked 127 days straight on the railway at Sonkuri.
This came to an end when he saw the M.O with 'a bit of a headache '
It was Malaria.

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F Force
Thai/Burma border 1943.
Harry's description of the condition of 27 year old Robert Surtees (pictured)

Bob would go on to survive the railway and live onto the 1990s

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@AndyAitcheson Testify, fellow sound archive nerd

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I wasn't quite prepared for how hard this book hits from the start.
The author, part of F Force himself used diaries and recollections of other members.

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"a dull heavy blow on my neck"
Singapore
1942
20 year old Colin Brien of the 2/19th Battalion is lead to a clearing.
He sees Japanese soldiers, a pit and a sword.
Sat down and blindfolded he later came to part buried.
Badly injured, Civilians and police help him reach Changi.

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@John_evans21 @petehinton8 His first season with us was less than entertaining with a real division between fans. Don't expect miracles from the off.

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@AndyAitcheson I'm all for the return of whatever these are

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@lestweforgetusa I think It was the physical condition of prisoners/ local workers at that point of the war.

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@melchieser Were the masses of British clothing captured in Malaya used by the Japanese forces?

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@olly2518 @DanJBray Or just dye it all jungle green

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Standards.
Mount Pleasant,
Singapore 1942.
Frederick 'blackjack' Galleghan C.O of the 2/30th Battalion is so disgusted with the turn out of a party of Japanese guards that he ordered it to the battalion taylor.
Days later he is invited to inspect them by the local commander.

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@olly2518 @DanJBray You have to wonder what the Japanese did with all the Bombay bloomers and pith helmets they captured in Malaya.

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@lowlandsapien They'd be good at poaching, there was still a tradition of getting 'one for the pot' in the 70s in Lincolnshire (our county song is about it).

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@DorkSirjur @GROOVERIDERDJ Thanks for bringing Scott and Keith deranged back into my life.

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Another astonishing Changi stat.
Daily food provision for 10000 men in 1944.

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@LincolnCity_FC Any news on the Franklin Mint commemorative plate?

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An interesting statistic I've never seen before regarding Australian prisoners in Changi.