Australian WW2 Veteran Interview: Sandakan & Death Marches - Ex Prisoner of War, Lt. Leslie Glover

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Interview with Australian War Veteran of World War 2 and Ex POW (Prisoner of War) - lieutenant Leslie Glover 2/26th Battalion - Also known as "The Boy From Bowen". Prisoner of War to the Japanese at Changi and Borneo, taking part in the building of the aerodrome at Sandakan, Lt. Leslie Glover describes having his neck broken by a Japanese officer with a pick handle and the frequent bashings of Australian Soldiers by their Japanese captors.
This interview has been edited, Name and Battalion and still photograph's have been added.
With permission from and special thanks to The Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs for the interviews of these INCREDIBLE men. More of Lt. Leslie Glover's story and interview can be found at the link below:
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Mr. Leslie Bunn Glover, "The Boy From Bowen" - Ex POW at Changi and Borneo, he witnessed and experienced severe and often fatal bashings of Australian prisoners by the Japanese. Leslie Bunn Glover, one of the last men standing of the POWs who survived the atrocities of the Death Camps of Sandakan and Kuching under their Japanese captives, passed away in 2018 at the age of 96 - LEST WE FORGET

[@JohnWilliams-iw6oq]

Never let their names or their suffering be forgotten.

[@michaelrooks4030]

How could u ever forget let alone forgive...so bloody cruel the Japanese...unbelievable

[@SUAMISTERI]

TERBENAMNYA MENTARI BORNEO MOVIE

[@gryphus64]

A great uncle was in Changi and also arrived 10 days before Singapore fell..................what a tragic loss of Australian servicemen. Sandakan was a camp for officers and those who the Japanese considered a menace as POW's. Few survivors. I think he had been placed in a prison isolation away from main group and managed to survive.

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I didn't know that about Sandakan, that makes sense though, given how tough the survivors were, I'd imagine the Japanese would have had their hands full.
It's amazing your Great Uncle survived, it says a LOT about him and how tough he must be..... It must be an honour to have such a person in your family 🖤

[@gryphus64]

He came came back with severe PTSD, lived as a recluse. Nightmares about his mates getting killed, starved and mis treated. Sandakan has a few books written about it, no British of around 1500 survived, 6 Australians survived, I think of 1200. The worst prison camp of the Japanese.

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@@gryphus64 Billy Young was the last of those 6, he passed away last year.... I believe he wrote a book about Sandakan too. His daughter is quoted to have said she asked him about the war when she was about 9, and by the way he reacted, she just KNEW never to ask again..... It would be amazing to hear your Great Uncles name if you felt like sharing it, I will completely understand if you don't, of course.... I just feel honoured any time I hear a new name that belonged to the greatest generation to ever live...

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Changi was a holiday camp
Bill Young survived because he was found outside Sandakan camp looking for food and was accused of trying to escape and was sent to Outram Road Gaol Singapore
Bill's book is "Return From A Dark Age"
The six survivors from the Sandakan Ranau Death March were Dick Braithwaite and Owen Campbell who escaped from the second death march before reaching Ranau
Nelson Short and Bill Moxham escaped with my father Keith Botterill from Ranau
Bill Moxham and my father had survived the first death march and the "rice carry" that caused the deaths of many of the first death marchers after arriving at Ranau
When the survivors of the second death march began to arrive at Ranau there were only six survivors of the first death march alive to greet them
Sticpewich white J A P and "friend" of mass murderer Capitan Nagai was the last of the six to escape from Ranau and survive
Owen Campbell was the last of the six death march survivors to pass away
Bill Young was the last surviving POW who had spent any time at Sandakan like Lieutenant Glover and the other officers who following "The Sandakan Incident" were transferred from Sandakan to Kuching in October or November 1943
I suppose Lieutenant Glover was suffering survivor's guilt
I think the original post on this comment thread is saying his relative was in Changi not Sandakan
Sandakan was not an officer's camp

[@CJArnold-hq3ey]

Ive heard these by Dad at night whilst being a kid during his nightmares Mum would belt me back to bed , so I didn't hear , but I'd sneak back down and listen - on the Forgotten Railway of Death - the Pakanbaru Death Railway , guess you may not of heard of that one .

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RIP