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I have a folder in my filing cabinet into which I throw stuff that grabs my attention – generally of a bizarre nature. Time to share some I think… I lived in Singapore in the mid-1960s when it was a...
View ArticlePART FOUR – SEEING THE MOVIE ‘THE RAILWAY MAN’
PART FOUR SEEING THE MOVIE ‘THE RAILWAY MAN’ At the time of writing, The Railway Man is screening widely in cinemas around Australia. I went to see it with mixed feelings, and I was right to be...
View ArticlePART THREE – THE MEETING WITH NAGASE
PART THREE THE MEETING WITH NAGASE In 1995, after much soul-searching, Eric and Patti Lomax decided to travel to Thailand to meet Nagase Takashi near the iconic hooped River Kwae Bridge near...
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PART TWO ERIC LOMAX & NAGASE TAKASHI – The Reconciliation Begins After the war, Eric Lomax returned to Britain a deeply traumatised and troubled man. The phenomenon of post traumatic stress...
View ArticlePART ONE – NAGASE TAKASHI, A SINGULAR JAPANESE
PART ONE NAGASE TAKASHI – A singular Japanese In the recent feature film The Railway Man the Japanese soldier who tortured Eric Lomax, an English prisoner of war on the Thai-Burma Railway who was...
View ArticleSTUBBORN BUGGERS – The survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi...
STUBBORN BUGGERS – A new book by Tim Bowden It was known as Outram Road Gaol, and of all the places to be if you were a prisoner of war of the Japanese, this was the worst place of all – a military...
View ArticleSCRABBLE – OBSESSION OR NECESSITY?
I have played Scrabble most of my adult life – first on a board, with tiles drawn from a cloth bag, but in more recent years, on line through Facebook with Scrabble Mattel. My regular partners now...
View ArticleOBITUARIES – MY, HOW THEY’VE CHANGED…
The obituary of the renowned theatre producer and award winning television and radio writer Harold Lander in the Sydney Morning Herald on 24 July 2015, was a classic – partly because it was much...
View ArticleABANDONED AT FOSSIL BLUFF – A remarkable account of Antarctic survival
In the summer of 1967-68, Rod Ledingham was with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) on the Antarctic Peninsula. High on the polar plateau, he was assisting a geologist, replacing an injured colleague...
View ArticleTHE REMARKABLE ABORIGINAL ROCK ART OF MT BORRADAILE
THE STUNNING CAVE PAINTING OF THE RAINBOW SERPENT AT MT BORRADAILE This stunning image of the Rainbow Serpent painted under a rock overhang near Mr Borradaile in Arnhem Land is thought to be the...
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