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This book is dedicated to my good friend Mick Shiels,
without whose help I would not be
alive today to tell my story,
and to Hugh Lowry,
both gallant Surreys

First published in Great Britain in 2008

By Pen and Sword Military

an imprint of

Pen and Sword Books Ltd

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Barnsley

South Yorkshire S70 2AS

Copyright John Wyatt & Cecil Lowry, 2008

ISBN 978 1 84415 853 9

eISBN 9781844684526

The right of John Wyatt and Cecil Lowry to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Contents

Photograph of me taken during training at Kingston Upon Thames, in the summer of 1940.

HMS Empress of Japan/Empress of Scotland . The troopship I sailed on out of Glasgow in January 1941.

Photograph taken of me in Alor Star in the summer of 1941 well before the Japanese invasion.

The East Surrey s football team, Alor Star Malaya around October 1941 before hostilities began.

HMS Dragonfly, t he gunboat that evacuated us from Ponggor to Singapore on 28 January 1941.

A cartoon drawn by an unknown prisoner which reflects treatment of subordinates.

Card home to family from No. 2 camp, Thailand, January 1944.

Drawing of the dysentery ward Kanchanaburi Hospital camp, Thailand 1943. No equipment, no drugs not much hope of surviving. A night scene depicting the departure forever of someones chum. Painted with human hair, writing ink and Indian ink.

Card home to family from Osaka P.O.W. camp, Japan.

Another card home to family from No.2 camp, Thailand.

The ill-fated Asaka Maru , the first of the two hellships that I had the misfortune to be aboard. The Asaka ran aground on 15 August 1944 on Formosa.

A painting accurately depicting the conditions at Sonkurai camp. Sonkurai camp was my last camp on the railway and became known as the cholera camp due to the many prisoners who died of this awful disease whilst incarcerated in the camp.

USS Benevolence , the American hospital ship that I boarded early September 1945 just off Yokosuka, Japan.

The original Queen Elizabeth that took me home from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Southampton the last leg of my voyage from Japan in November 1945.

USS Admiral Hughes , the wonderful 22,000 ton American troops ship that took us across the Pacific from Manila to Equimalt, British Columbia during later September/early October 1945.

A waxworks model in the Singapore, Sentosa Island Museum, of the signing of the surrender document by Lieutenant General Arthur Percival to General Tomoyuki Yamashita. This ceremony took place on 15 February 1942 in the Ford Motor Company buildings on Bukit Timah Road.

General Tomoyuki Yamashita (The Tiger of Malaya) forcefully demanding that General Percival surrenders unconditionally.

A photograph of Molly and I when we married on 4 August 1946 in Sydenham, the happiest day of my life, along with the day the Queen Elizabeth docked in Southampton on 4 December 1945.

My best mate, Mick Shiels taken with his sister and her husband in Dublin sometime in December 1945. Mick is on the left of the three.

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