MAN RESCUED FROM JAPANESE PRISON CAMP - Picture (issued 1945) shows - Aircraftman/1 David Hallam, of 58 Portland Avenue, Bolsover, Chesterfield, who has just arrived home after nearly three years of hardship in Japanese prison camps. He was captured in February 1942, while in hospital at Singapore. With other British and Dutch prisoners and Malayan coolies he was put to work on building the Bangkok/Moulmein supply line. This meant working from dawn till dusk on scanty rations and with no mechanical aids whatsoever/ The pay was roughly 4 1/2d. per day. Later he fell ill again when
MAN RESCUED FROM JAPANESE PRISON CAMP - Picture (issued 1945) shows - Aircraftman/1 David Hallam, of 58 Portland Avenue, Bolsover, Chesterfield, who has just arrived home after nearly three years of hardship in Japanese prison camps. He was captured in February 1942, while in hospital at Singapore. With other British and Dutch prisoners and Malayan coolies he was put to work on building the Bangkok/Moulmein supply line. This meant working from dawn till dusk on scanty rations and with no mechanical aids whatsoever/ The pay was roughly 4 1/2d. per day. Later he fell ill again when bound for Japan in a Japanese freighter. After receiving treatment from Americans at Manila he was sent to a farm on Luzon, from which he was eventually freed by the advancing forces, Royal Air Force
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