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Sham Shui Po barracks

Interviewer: What do you recall about those British Army facilities that you marched into? They were God awful. They were God awful. They had old army beds that were iron beds that folded underneath, like they used to call them, one half slid under the other half. Then they had mattresses with what they called biscuits. They come in threes, you'd pile them on top of each other, biscuits. And the bedbugs were bad and it was horrible, it was actually horrible. We had to put, there again, later on in the prison camp the same way we had to put cans and put coal all in the cans so that the bedbugs would come and fall into the cans so they wouldn't get up in your bed, ya know, terrible.

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