NX2497 - BEE, Robert James Frederick (Bobbie), Pte. - HQ
Company, Transport Platoon
NX26330 (NX5078) - CHARLTON, Ronald Alan (Zipper or Ron),
Pte. - B Company, 12 Platoon
NX34500 - HILL, James Oswald (Jimmy), Pte. - HQ Company,
Pioneer Platoon
It is a far cry back to the very
early days as P.O.W., when we were still getting some real
food and has set up a boxing ring at that very select camp
at Second Avenue, largely at the instigation of Bobby Bee
(HQ Coy, who was subsequently one of the cholera victims at
Kami Sonkurai) and to the delight of the Jap commandant of
Singapore Island, whose house overlooked us and who loved,
as he called it, "box-fighting" . Jimmy, do you remember
whipping the socks off Zipper Charlton, who was something of
a professional? - Ed.)
(Source:
Tom Nixon, Makan No. 194, Mar/Apr, 1971)
