Leslie John Dawson - The RSL - A Time To Celebrate

DOB 18/8/1922

How long were you a POW? “ three and a half years, one day after another. At least six hundred prisoners in that camp, we worked in a coal mine, 3 shifts”. “All of a sudden the Japanese were gone, we looked in the guard house, there were all the rifles, we thought they must have landed on the Island, we didn’t know the war was over!”