Collected - 008 Jim's POW loin cloth

Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial

English - August 16, 2019 00:31 - 21 minutes - 29.8 MB
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Jim Easton and Lou Engledow were young men thrown together in the Second World War as prisoners of the Japanese on the Burma-Thailand Railway. In Episode 8 of Collected, Louise Maher is shown a scrap of red fabric, snatched by Jim and saved by Lou, that bears witness to their friendship and survival.