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My name is Caroline Maud Atkinson and I was married to George. He was sent to Singapore by Churchill and just got there when the Japanese arrived. He was sent to Changi Jail then on to build the Burma railway. He was there until the end of the war.They were badly treated and my husband had a scar under his chin where a Japanese soldier had stuck his bayonet. He was just skin and bone when he came back. He couldn't speak Japanese when he was awake but used to talk in Japanese in his sleep. Once they were unloading a boat and found some saki. They all had a drink but George had too much. His friends saved him from being found out. If you stole from the Japanese you had your hands cut off!There was one man with jet black hair. He was working on a bridge when a Japanese soldier came up and just pushed his friend off the bridge to his death. They went back to camp and the next morning his hair was lily white with shock. All they got to eat was rice and dried fish because the Japanese took all the Red Cross parcels. My husband was able to eat hardly anything when he got home because his stomach had shrunk and this was after several months of convalescence

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