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Yeah one pack

I see Silver is still trying to grab the limelight

Good on you Karl. The digger in this video "Bill" had the good fortune of being caught outside the POW camp at Sandakan while looking for food but was accused by the Japanese of trying to escape. After a very severe beating that was witnessed by the whole camp he was sent to a hellhole at Singapore called Outram Road Gaol with something like a 50 / 50 chance of survival. Bill's story of survival is remarkable and told in his own book "Return From A Dark Age" Bill's mates at Sandakan mistakenly believed Bill and a mate who he was with at time had their eyes torn out by camps commander Hoshijima (?) and because they were not seen again at the camp it was believed they had both died from the injuries received during the beatings. My father was one of only six survivors from a total of more than two thousand four hundred British and Australians at Sandakan, he survived the Punishment Cages at Sandakan the Death March to Ranau and several murderous Rice Carrying treks back along the track to Paginatan before escaping with three others from Ranau. They were helped by heroic local people, but one died of illness before they were recovered by Australian "Z" Force operatives. My father testified at the War Crimes Tribunals at Rabaul and Tokyo. Hoshijima was hung.

@@hodaka1000 Good God the hell those poor men and young lads suffered can not be fully understood by those who weren't there. My Mums brother returned to captivity most nights The nightmares never stopped. The lads were conscripts or regular troops but they had no way of comprehending what they got into. I'm in Cumbria and back in my 20s I used to hike carrying 80lbs up the fells and it took it out of me. Too carry a sack of rice when your ill, suffering malnutrition, being beaten and in that heat Well it must have sent many insane and others just giving up. What they suffered is truly shameful, they had no say in all this, many not understanding worldwide political tinkering the Japanese should have been told what went on The world truly was on a knife edge and if it was not for the people back then the world would be unrecognizable We must never forget On a side note I was told that in the 50s my family considered moving down under for £1 My older brothers would have been right at home

@@somethingelse4878 Yeah, there's some good places to go hiking here