G-String

They took all our clothing away from us and give us just a Japanese khaki. A thin Japanese khaki clothes. They took all of our clothes away from us. We didn't have any underclothes or anything. They give us them G-strings they called them. Interviewer: And what were they, the G-strings That was just a long piece of cloth about so wide, probably about this long. And it had a string on one end of it and then you tied the string and you pulled the other one up between it and flapped it over the belt, over the string and it would hang down and that's what you wore.

Mr Lynch talks about the clothes they wore while they were under capture in Hong Kong.

Wilbert Lynch

Wilbert Lynch was born in Portage, Manitoba on April 6th 1923 and was raised on a farm with two brothers and three sisters. He left home when he was 13 years old and worked for five dollars a month plus room and board at a few local farms. Three days after turning seventeen he joined the army and trained on the Bren gun in Camp Shilo and became a member of the 18th Manitoba Reconnaissance Battalion.