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Page IK Tilt HERALD Wednesday November im Tales of starvation and treatment in prisoners of war camps abound and yet three Halloa Hills men they suffered much less than the tales would lead the public believe Georgetown resident Stan Swann became a Japanese prisoner of war when Singa pore surrendered in Feb ruary He admits that he saw men beaten and tortured during his imprisonment but says that was not the Japanese guards who did these things They were done by Koreans He says also that such treatment was used as etiological discipline to keep a camp full of prisoners in line Only men who violated some camp rules or tried to escape were beaten with split bamboo poles or fed rice then water so that their stomachs bloated up and burst when guards jumped on them Since Stan had been a driver with the British Army Service Corps he volunteered to drive for the Japanese when there were taking sup plies to various camps In Thailand A special unit of was formed to move supplies and do an assort men I of camp tasks The same 75 and 50 guards worked together from that It wasnt heaven but the good times are remembered time on until Iheir command ing officer was posted to China and they were return to the camp In Thailand At one place in northern the Japanese were so frightened of the natives that each night they gave sin prisoners guns and tlon to escort them back to their camp guards and prl goners lived In separate camps and then the went back lo their own camp The prisoners were also given guns and twenty rounds of am munition In or dcr to hunt for camp food They stray far be cause it was so easy to get lost Stan says Stan says that the guards turned a blind eye to the fact thai the prisoners had a radio In camp When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima guards told about It three hours the bombing When the prisoners were released there was a great deal of violence in some of the camps because the pri turned on their form guards looking for re venge The men in their camp did not Join in Stan says In fact Ihey protected the guards who had been with them for months and saw to it that they were delivered to the authorities Hoy Rudlger was a much In 1st in a Royal Army Service Corps mobile shop with a transport company He was captured In Greece in April when the British surrendered all forces in that country Since he was caught in what was termed an surrender his pay carried on while he was In He also knew he could not be court as a coward when the war ended Although it was not common any soldier rendering individually to erwhelming odds did have possibility to face when The transition period be tween the time they were taken In Greece until Ihey arrived in Stalag In Austria was very hard Roy ISA held 10 000 of all Allied forces Lice was a constant 1cm during the trip to the but once Ihey re ceived Red Cross parcels with soap they began lo get the better or the little pests The men were very proud of the fact thai eventually there t any lice to be found in ihe camp he says The Red Cross parcels also Veterans provided manpower for Canadas PoW camps While Canadians out ways to survive In foreign camps the Axis servicemen were discover what life was all about in Canadian camps A special unit known as the Veteran Guards was formed to man camps that were scattered throughout Canada and seven George town men Including Jim Murphy and Mike McGlll enlisted Mr Murphy had served with the Royal Army Service Corps driving horsedrawn transport vehicles In WW I He says that his group went Halifax to pick up the group arrive were two of German Luftwaffe bound for camp at Angler on the shore of Lake Superior The nearest large centre I Arthur ThL irds moved around trim mp to camp Mr The prisoners slept in bell tents when he I but by the lime Mr was there i wooden huts 10 reel The camp was ii wire and died over it from low did hours si wiih our men in each were not terribly I the prisoners nr Mr Murphy rtmin tiers prisoners tun out of one fine They were all back two weeks be cause a lizard came up and aught them unprepared Apparently they had tried lo cross Lake Superior In a small boat it was too rough Although Germans were in camps all over Can ada the Italians were in a camp on St Helm Island Quebec According Heinz Klaus of Terra Colla being a man in a Canadian camp bad at all He liked Canada so much in fact that when the war end he decided to come back Heinz was a petty officer on J ship sunk in He was picked up by the British navy miles from Brest France and taken London for questioning Then were brought to Canada aboard the lie rancc Although no one was really hard lo get along he found the sailors were ilcly nicer lo them than regular There were German inLclhbndgc Alberta when he got to the camp The one a Medicine Hal had That was where he decided to escape There was loo much squabbling among those who still believed in Hitler and those who had been he and a few got killed in the arguments He had five friends to help him tunnel under Ihe barbed wire but none of Ihem wanted to come u ilh him He wore his uniform look all the identifying Hems off Then he set out to hitchhike He had very little English anyone who questioned huh seemed satisfied wllh his story of being in the Dutch navy He was picked up in a restaurant in Toronto Alter he was captured Heinz was There were only prison era there and it was much better All men were seamen and the atmosphere was much nicer He went work cutting Tor the Paper Company at a camp near Bancroft His wartime Job helped him when he returned in 1957 He went two application for a Job the man doing ring was quite Indignant lhat be should apply when native Canadians were in the When he explained thai he had already had some ex per lencc culling pulp for the as a he Ihe job immediately Hem I says he found no resentment from Canadian during war The guards loo were After first Christ mas all seemed thaw out each other and It wis a first name basis after hat He was taken back July 13 1945 bul he ad to spend a year doing farm labour then as part of his pc nance or being a career soldier Airman notes change in attitude since war Chick Henderson of Glen Williams was In the Royal A Force during World War 11 Although he can remember the war with good humour and numerous stones he points out the tremendous change in at tilude nee lime We thought we holed in those day he says it I really the hatred of one country for another II was all per lated by one man Both sides were just following orders We had no choice In what we did Chick Joined the air force on an apprenticeship scheme a couple of years before ihe war began He took airframe and engine training radio and were also taught In November he went r squadron Squadron the I Jam Buster lime Squadron was created early The squadron usually had 1944 specifically bomb to planes each with a a deluded aft nance Although he moved around as squadrons disbanded and reformed he remained in maintenance until the Halifax and Lancaster bombers came into use in 1943 Then he became a flight engineer Britain was trying lo end the war by totally destroying German cities wllh bombs at that point he soys A special unit the Major win The line of Robbie Duke Eric Clerk and Howie Oram led Georgetown Standard Products Major Pec Wees to a win over West Duke scored three of Georgetown a goals and Clark earned three assists Oram chipped in with one assist Greg Robertson scored the goat with an assist going to Fred Kendrik Derek Murphy played fine game In earning the shutout The win lifted Georgetown record the dams supplying Ruhr Valley because this was the heart of Germany industrial area Although he was not in the squadron time he wound up in II as planes went down and experienced crews were brought in to fill vacancies The unit was supposed to be d banded after the dams were blown but It was refrained to do any lypc of precision bombing that was required Their targets Included things like floating docks In harbours the assembly plants not canteens at the Mlchilcn tire factory in France Ihe Turpi which was one of Germany biggest battleships and an Island off Holland Chick chuckles as he points out that everyone can sink an Island II seems that It was really a piece land oft the Dutch coast which had been dyked and pumped dry The squadron blew holes In the dykes and sank the island because it was full of special German equipment that pilot navigator flight engineer radio operator bombardier and two gun During ihe time when Britain was staging such heavy bombing raids on Germany there might be to BOO a converging on the target he says They came by different flight paths al different heights They tould arrive drop the r bombs and leave again all within fiVL minutes The raids wire always carried out on dark nights and problem Losses on heavy raids ran 10 per cent and hlghir he says We had a gentleman war Chick says We went off for eight hours of fighting home showered shaved and took off to the pub It was a risky business he admits hut conscious of It was cold and noisy and hard on Ihe nerves but we have anything like the soldiers went through NEED A GIFT For a Wedding Anniversary Birthday Going Away How about or some Hasty Scenic or Floral 08 Painting Water Colours Ink TR GIBSON GALLERY were an essential port of Iheir food too Roy Hill has a letter form used write home On there Is a list of Items forbidden lo prisoners The list includes money weapons and scissors which seem reasonable but It also Includes candles medication of any kinds fruit Juices books and printed material of or indecent char blank paper writing paper postcards and toes Prisoners were sent out of the to smaller work camps known as Commandos which were scattered within a mile radius of the main camp These camps contained any where from six men A guard was always watching prisoners at work unless they were off in ones and twos on private farms Then the civil Ian farmer was responsible for Roy laughs now at how he learned sew grain by hand Slow wllh a hone and a cow Itched to a single furrow plow and thresh grain with a flail It was a new experience for him since he had been raised in a city He remembers one time when he was talking to a farmer about the war and how it was going and then man Instantly changed subject when his wife Familics t even trust each other nol to In form he says When Germans found they were really losing the war and the Russians were about to march in they took the British from the cast to west of Austria where Ihey could be surrendered lo own people It was a bad trip Roy says They were days on road with very Utile food The column of prisoners was several miles long and every tried not to fall towards the end They could hear rifle shots at the end of the line as the guards look care of the sick and the lasger were in a camp Salzburg for several weeks before the Allies liberated them The Americans or rived the night he cut a hole in the barbed wire and de cided o escape They were flown back to a reception camp near Oxford The women s air force had laid out lea and cakes for them when Ihey got there and they were all so shy of the women they dldn know how to behave Browne of was captured with the Sea forth Highlanders while they were cutting road to Rome When were taken the Germans lined all up and warned them Ihey were not registered pris oners of war and would not be registered until reached a camp That meant anyone trying to escape would get the entire group shot with no International censure because they were still soldiers not prisoners We all each chuckles During the next six weeks hey marched through North Italy to take trains through the Brenner Pass to Stalag He was so sick with dysentery and a touch of malaria lhat he actually re members only ports of Ihe trip During Ihe Red Cross threatened to stop delivering parcels into German terrl lory because the Allies had destroyed too many of their convoys by mistake Ger mans had a trick of disguis ing their convoys under Red Cross banners and the Allies were righting back a bit too indiscriminately says In order to keep things going because the prisoners desperately needed the tup- plies in those parcels an agreement was reached that Germany would release Can adian PoWs to organize and run convoys Gord was one of the IS men picked for the first convoy out of Lubeck After that his run was from Constance on the Swiss border north to Nurcnburg Germany fie was usually at Ihe head of Ihe convoy because he could read Ihe maps as well as drive He had a close shave one day when recognize the Red Crosa on trucks in lime and put six bullets in Ihe cab of his truck all around him He also got the task of transporting women from a concentration camp to Den mark near the end of the war No one bad told the women where they wen go ing or why and they were scared to death be ben One woman was so weak she couldn t climb up end Gord had to help her That broke the ice and they dis covered be was a Canadian Then found someone who could speak English to In the end he gave them cigarettes think the whole truck had caught fire You I see it for smoke If you looked into the mirror he laughs The Swiss wanted them to behind when the war ended to help clear the con centration camps but Gord ays none of the men would agree They had seen enough with transporting that one load and they were all Just a bit nervous of what tbey might find At that age we couldn let anyone see us cry you know be says And it was hard to believe that one human being could so such things to another We were Just too squeamish to risk it Citizens call meeting Concerned Georgetown citizens have been invited to a public meeting organized by residents who attended the first day of Ontario Municipal Board hearings Monday to hear evidence on Focal application for a vis ion south of Georgetown The meeting which will beheld in St Andrews United Church at 7 Sunday will discuss Ihe impact which a sudden per cent increase In 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