Description
Mr.McAuley talks about being a prisoner.
William Archibald McAuley
William Archibald McAuley was born on February 4th,1921 in McAuley, Manitoba. He worked on the farm while going to school. After graduating, he worked at a neighbors farm for seven dollars and fifty cents a month until he joined the army on September 17th,1939 when he was eighteen years old.
Transcript
You didn't know your future, what it was going to be and well, I don’t know if it was the next day or a day or two after that the colonel of the Japanese made a statement that, “You will be our prisoner of war until we take your country or whatever, until we win.” And they didn't recognize International Red Cross, they told us that we were... we knew that we were in for a bad time and some people didn't take it very well. Some people went berserk, but it was a tough road at that time.