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Bravo

So glad for their cunning escapades. Kept them going in all the camps through WW2. So cheeky. Bravo Men!

What these Men went through. God Bless

God Bless

Hi TAMAJAO241. What a fantastic interview - what a character Ernest is! is there a way to find out who owns the original interview? As we are making a documentary series and the story/interview would be of interest. Is there a way to email or contact you? Best, Woody

needs to be taught in all schools including Japan

My cousin James Joseph Towers aged 19, deck boy on the Empress of Asia died at Hintok as a POW. He died on the 13th June 1943 in the Malay camp on the Death Railway. James was buried in grave 26 at the camp, and later re-buried in Kanchanaburi war cemetery in Thailand. The Japanese army had no mercy for the POWs and treated them cruelly. I wonder if Ernest Warwick knew James, as Hintok was near Hellfire Pass. Rest in peace James Joseph Towers of Liverpool.

My cousin, James Joseph Towers aged 19 deck boy on the Empress of Asia was captured by the Japanese in Jakarta and transported up to Changi Jail. He was put in H force which left Changi in May 1943. James was transported via rail boxcar over five days up to the Death Railway. James died at Hintok on the 13th June 1943 and was buried in grave 26 at Malay prison camp. He was re-buried in Kanchanaburi war cemetery in Thailand. Rest in Peace James Joseph Towers and all your fellow POWs who died alongside of you on the dreaded cruel Death Railway.

All the spits etc went to Russia- useless to them due to fuel freezing and unflyable . Churchill's daft decision to flatter Stalin

What a gent.

Such a brave and remarkable man. He talks about his experiences in a matter of fact way with no prejudices against what happened to him.

I am filled with humility after viewing this series. Our "special generation "indedd.!

A leading member of our "special generation". Thank s to you and your comrades.

A true man amongst men

I had the honor and pleasure of riding a train from Glasgow to London sitting next to Mr. Warwick in 1990. His wife and sister were traveling with him. I was only 20 years old. The five hours with him were fascinating and I never forgot him.

Ernest was captured along the Kheam Hock Road and the drainage ditches he speaks of are still there. Most of the lads killed in that area were taken up to Kranji after the war however there are still a number of men, whose names appear on the Singapore memorial and have no graves, who are listed as missing and presumably remain buried around the Bukit Brown cemetery.

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Thank you for telling your story of brutality, starvation and despicable behaviour by the Japanese.

Thank your for telling your story. Whilst most of us now live in comfort, the relentless brutality you endured and the mindless Japanese persecution of prisoners, deserves eternal respect.

The world forgets the Civil War camps too.. Elmira, NY; Andersonville, GA, and others, that happened long before WW2 and taught states how to create concentration camps... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_prison_camps

what a brave man an inspiration to me

men of steal of the like that we will never know again

I found these series of Interviews very moving. Thank you for sharing. I am in Bangkok and tomorrow I am going by train to Kanchanaburi (site of current bridge on the Kwai river but not the original). I will also visit the Death Railway Centre and Allied memorial cemetery. From there I will continue by train to the end of the rail line to Nam Tok and then onto Hellfire Pass. I hope to walk as much of the railway route as possible. This is something I have wanted to do for many years in memory of my Uncle who was repatriated back to Australia after serving on the railway, including Hellfire Pass. I was fortunate to be able to spend time with him in my younger days and became very close. He never spoke about his captivety except one night after a few beers (he drank very little) he opened up to me, only once...never spoke of it again. One story he told me I will never forget. He took off his shirt and showed me where one night, very sick and not expected to live, a Japanese guard bayoneted him and had him thrown onto a heap of bodies to be cremated in the morning. His friends sneaked out later in the dark and found him on the pile of corpses, still alive. They smuggled him back to camp and hid him under a hut. By some miracle and care from his friends and the M.O. he survived. I remember when I started working in the Coal Mines of Australia, by then the Japanese were fast becoming our biggest buyer for their steel industry so the mining companies negotiating contracts would bring parties of Japanese from the steel industry there, wine and dine them and finish with a tour of the mine. At that time there were still quite a few "old timers" working in the mines who had been prisoners of the Japs.On the day of the official visit the mines would give these men the day off work on full pay in fear of what may happen when confronted by their former tormentors, such was the feeling among those Aussies. PS. My Uncle passed away at age 43 as a direct result of the damage done both mentally and physically while a prisoner on the railway as did many of his mates. Thanks again for sharing these interwiews.

I have a copy of this remarkable mans book, a book that opens your eyes in some small way to what he and his brave comrades endured............................Lest we forget.............God bless him

His excellent grasp of the nonsense of command strategy in that campaign is ironic given that he was one of the lads on the sharp end. Yet there is no bitterness in his re-telling, just that Brit doggedness that says, "We're here because we're here so let's get on with it..." I'm Irish but this gentleman personifies everything that was GREAT about Great Britain. I would have loved to meet with him. SF

I shall search out the book this HERO wrote. Than you for this post. SF

What a document. Thank you Mr. Warwick, thank you poster. These accounts tell us first-hand what happened. In the telling, We are hopefully so shocked that we could never allow that again. To endure what Ernest Warwick experienced was truly heroic. To speak about it so honestly in the effort to educate and enlighten goes beyond the stoic courage the FEPOWS displayed. Respect. SF

The hill Ernest fought his battle on is Hill 105 at the Bukit Brown Cemetery. It has recently been cleared of graves as part of road development. Evidence of this battle can still be found on the hillsides as the workers clear away undergrowth. See BattleforSingapore You Tube channel for a walk around the site.

Fascinating and heartbreaking videos ... I now understand why my Uncle hated the Japanese until the day he died... they can never just say sorry... sorry will never be enough for what these cruel people did in the name of Japan.

These are wonderful, humbling, horrifying videos: thanks for posting.

A remarkable man - just got on with it:..in face of horrific treatment and situation.

Important to have this first-hand testimony - much closr to the truth about what happened in Singapore.

Thanks so much for posting this: the truth about what happened in Singapore - great bravery in an unwinnable situation - needs to be better understood.

is this gentleman still alive they were very special folks and we should never never forget them

a nice man

A good man

A brave man

i have just bought his book,what a read!!!

what a great bloke

I've Ernests book, I had no idea he was still alive til as recently as 2009. A very brave man to recount the horror of captivity under the cruel Japanese.

Its blokes like him that make you proud to be British.God bless him and his comrades,

What?!!!no comments from the we hate America crowd because of Hiroshima?