Incremental Punishment

Heroes Remember

Incremental Punishment

Transcript

We had three different guards at times; Harold Lloyd, we called one because he had glasses, horn-rimmed glasses, he looked just like Harold Lloyd and Fish Face was the other one, and Dempsey was the one that had a pair of broad shoulders and all he did was look for food. He was hungry all the time, it seemed to me. And he was alright. Harold Lloyd was alright but Fish Face was a bugger. For any little thing at all, he’d stand you up and he had been wounded fighting in China and he had a very stiff arm and he’d come around with that with a smack across your face. And he did that quite frequently to different people. I had it a few times but that’s the way he was, I mean, and anybody else, he did some pretty bad beatings for a while on different people that were doing the wrong thing so we complained to the camp commandant and the camp commandant had all of us there and all the soldiers there that were from the camp and he would get one of the others guys which we called Three Fingers and Fish Face would be standing there and Three Fingers would smack him back and forth across the face. So we would go back out to work the next day, Fish Face would beat up two guys, we would complain again, he’d get another beating. The next day he slapped about four guys, so we cut it out. We didn’t complain about him anymore. That’s the type of mentality that these s.o.b.’s had.

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Mr. Harrison discusses how complaints about how the men are being punished only leads to harsher treatment by the Japanese. The complaints stop!

George Harrison

George Harrison was born on April 4, 1920 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and was youngest of three children. His father died shortly after his birth, forcing his mother to place him and his siblings in an orphanage, where he was at times badly beaten. Learning this, his mother took her children back home. After completing grade 9, Mr. Harrison went to work to help support his family. Eventually, he gained employment with CPR Telegraph. On September 13, 1939, Mr. Harrison enlisted with Winnipeg Grenadiers, becoming a specialist on the Vickers machine gun. During the battle of Hong Kong, Mr. Harrison was made a sergeant, and was involved in deadly fighting. Along with the general misery and persecution suffered by all of the POWs, Mr. Harrison faced down both blindness and potential amputation of his toes.

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