Title
Memories of the effects of being a POW
Subject
WW2
Description
Tom Goode recalls the effects of being a prisoner of the Japanese in WW2.
Creator
Market Harborough Museum
Source
Interview with Tom Goode Ref: EMOHA99/158
Publisher
EMOHA
Date
1990
Rights
You may use this item in accordance with the licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
Format
.mp3
Language
English
Identifier
EMOHA99/158
Original Format
Tape
Duration
1 min 6 secs
Transcription
Being with the Japs, you didn’t really realise but you could never take your eyes off them a minute. If you had seen any of these Japs that were over us you didn’t know their next move, when they were gonna clonk ya, or bash ya . You wondered what for, mind you, sometimes, but you was always, if you was on the ball, you had always got your mind on them. You know in the camp or anywhere you would always be looking at them, you know, thinking, er, you didn’t know what they were going to do to you because they had got ya, we being white men and them being like they were it was a glory for them to have us and got us, you know.
Well I wasn’t in the best of health when I first come home. Ohh, terrible, used to be sick and everything everyday, I used to go doctors, I ended up in Leicester about four times with them [muffled] all that business, I had a right rough passage.
Well I wasn’t in the best of health when I first come home. Ohh, terrible, used to be sick and everything everyday, I used to go doctors, I ended up in Leicester about four times with them [muffled] all that business, I had a right rough passage.
Interviewee
Tom Goode
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