Title: A doctor's war
Description: After the end of the Second World War, Australia's Directorate of War Graves Services uncovered an extraordinary document hidden in a bottle buried in a grave in Singapore. It was a summary of the secret diary of Dr. Rowley Richards, a POW and medical officer on the notorious Burma-Siam (Thailand) Railway. Richards, was just 23 when war broke out, and in a series of diaries he recorded the everyday brutality of the POW camps and also the courage, humour and mateship of his comrades....
Subjects: Prisoners of war, Physicians, Australian Personal narratives, Prisoners and prisons, Japanese, Personal narratives, Australian, World War, 1939-1945, Biography, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, Autobiography and memoir, Military and warfare, Medicine
Places: Australia, Japan
People: Rowley Richards