Oswald John "Jack" Boardman enlisted in the 22nd Brigade Head Quarters at age 21.
The Japanese had no respect for our enormous number of wounded, some with horrific injuries. Once they were all hospitalised in Changi, our magnificent medical officers began the task of mending the men. However, the task wasn't that easy. We all know that once you lose a lot of blood you need vitamins to help you body regain its vitality, and our medical officers had no one single item to help our wounded survive their traumatic."
Don McLauren, Singapore 1942
One of our fella's was a very good ballroom dancer and had been taught ballet as well, he was quite masculine type so we used to use him on stage every now and again and he teamed up with an Indonesian prisoner who had come from Java, he was a good little dancer and he was small and Asian looking they had the big fella tied up to a wheel and an Indonesian dancer dressed as a female danced around him, teasing him, when he broke his chains and attacked 'her' the 'Jap' General who was in charge of the prisoners was in the theatre and he started to yell and go on because he reckoned we were insulting them as they were losing the war at that point. No more shows after that, we had to go to work.
Oswald Jack Boardman
Bellow is a replica of the Changi church which was used by prisoners
Bellow are poster the prisoners would use to advertise there concerts and drama performances on every Sunday
Above is a letter a solder's child sent to her father awaiting for his arrival.