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Roll on ... a Changi POW remembers, the secret diary kept by Corporal Joseph Nutter R.A.M.C., by Joseph Nutter ; compiled by Betty Pyke

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Roll on ... a Changi POW remembers

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by Joseph Nutter ; compiled by Betty Pyke

the secret diary kept by Corporal Joseph Nutter R.A.M.C.

The note Joe had left on the Yorkshire mantel of his mother's house Gone to join the Army was not unusual in 1936. At 21 he could not have foreseen the horrific experience he was to encounter during Army life in Singapore between 1942 and 1945 as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese. When Singapore was invaded in 1942 Joe was working at Alexandra Hospital. Three days after the "fall" he was captured. At his peril, Joe kept a small diary of the hell hole he found himself in. One-line entries, day by day, meticulously written in his copperplate handwriting. As part of 'F' Force Joe was sent to the Burma Railway. He managed to record the train journey and a 140 mile march done at night through jungle, rain, sand, and sandflies; and of the starvation, the diseases, and the deaths. Joseph Nutter had graduated as a Nursing Orderly in 1937 and became a Corporal in the British Royal Army Medical Corps. He was the youngest of seven siblings born into a working-class family in Bradford, Yorkshire. He never returned to England, having migrated to Australia in 1945 after liberation from Changi. This book replicates Joe's diary verbatim, with researched annotations, explanations and illustrations