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LINKS:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Far East Prisoners of War Community
Returned Services League Aust.
Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum
Royal Norfolk Veterans Assocn.
Thai Burma Railway Centre
Veterans UK
(Links with other sites do not constitute an endorsement of their services, nor vice versa)
Part Military History, Part Travelogue, Pure Human Spirit ...
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The Missing Years is the gripping story of former planter Captain Hugh Pilkington's disastrous Malaya campaign in which he was shot by a Japanese sniper, survived the Alexandra Hospital Massacre, became a PoW while still hospitalised, spent time in Changi, then — with only one good arm — was packed off to work on the Thai-Burma Death Railway at the dreaded Hellfire Pass. But he lived to tell the tale, and what a tale ...
This account is refreshingly different because it gives perhaps the most complete account yet of the heinous cold-blooded Alexandra Hospital Massacre of February 1942. Pilkington also gives the only known account of PoWs travelling north by train in Thailand to work camps along the Death Railway (while others were marched up to 300 km at bayonet point).
His memoirs were completed in October 1945 while on a POW repatriation ship from Singapore to England, hence his raw, unfiltered, surprisingly dispassionate voice, undistorted by time. While some parts were extracted for atrocity reports at War Crimes Tribunals, these memoirs ere intended only for his immediate family to read.
Enter Stu Lloyd, one of Asia/Pacific’s most widely published travel writers, who spent 13 years in Southeast Asia. Captivated by the unbelievable human spirit, he retraces the Captain's steps (and even spends a night in an historic Malaysian prison) with Pilkington's son, Paul, to uncover Pilkington's colonial past as a rubber planter and soldier, and find out — with often surprising results — what the locals today make of that period over 60 years ago they know largely as 'Japan time'... and Pilkington considered The Missing Years.
Praise for Stu Lloyd:
‘The perfect storyteller’ The Weekly Telegraph, UK.
‘A fast-paced read … a must for the bookshelf’ Inside Sport, Australia.
'Absolutely compelling' Radio 2UE.
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