It was Dirty, Lousy and Everything, you Know.

Well, we were in the camp and they came over, started bombing us. So we was in a camp there where we had no place to go. So they moved us from … we were on the main land, eh. They moved us to Hong Kong and that’s were we stayed as prisoners, in Hong Kong. I don’t remember that much. Of course, see, I got wounded on the 19th of December. It was by shrapnel. I got hit in the leg here by a piece of shrapnel. And I was put in the hospital in Hong Kong. Oh I was there about a year. I was in (inaudible) and then I was told I was sent back on to the mainland. It was a dirty camp. Dirty, lousy and everything, you know. The Indians had been living there. It was all dirty and we had a hell of a time cleaning it up. Well, we were getting rice, three ounces of rice to start with, but then they cut us down to two ounces. Two ounces of rice a day and that’s what we lived on. Two ounces of rice. We used to steam it. Well, I didn’t work on account of my wound. I didn’t work, I was working for the Japs for our officers. They had their own accommodations, but on the side. Had to, where the officers lived. But I was allowed to go in there, to go there and clean up in there. We weren’t paid. We were never paid, but the officers were paid once a month. They used to give us a little bit of food or what they bought. They used to give us some. I was lucky. I got a lot of help from my officers.