Sham Shui Po barracks

Heroes Remember

Sham Shui Po barracks

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Interviewer: What do you recall about those British Army facilities that you marched into? They were God awful. They were God awful. They had old army beds that were iron beds that folded underneath, like they used to call them, one half slid under the other half. Then they had mattresses with what they called biscuits. They come in threes, you'd pile them on top of each other, biscuits. And the bedbugs were bad and it was horrible, it was actually horrible. We had to put, there again, later on in the prison camp the same way we had to put cans and put coal all in the cans so that the bedbugs would come and fall into the cans so they wouldn't get up in your bed, ya know, terrible.

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Mr. McAuley explains what it was like in Sham Shui Po barracks.

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.

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