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Twiss POW Transcripts
Admiral Sir Frank Twiss describing his march to the prisoner of war camp in Macassar
Transcript: "We were marched from the docks to the railway station where we got into a train, an electric train like an underground train, much to the amazement of the populace who were very surprised as they’d never seen people like this before. They didn’t know that prisoners were being brought to Japan. We were pushed into one of the carriages, all the Japanese were moved out and we were shoved into a carriage, and we set off for some unknown destination which we arrived at after about three quarters of an hour and we were decanted again, fallen in, and marched up a hill, a very gravelly hill in what appeared to be a fairly open bit of country. When you got up this hill, it was about a half a mile or a mile from the station, there was a stockaded camp of wooden huts, chicken hut things, with the Japanese flag flying on a post and a lot of guards and things and we were marched into this and this was to be where we were to be locked up."
