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Description
Mr Peterson recalls what he said he’d do if he was to be captured, and what happened when the time came.
Transcription
Previous to going to Hong Kong when I was home from Jamaica, I was at a party there one night, and somehow or other word got around to a possibility being taken prisoners of war. I shot my big mouth off saying that rather than being taken a prisoner of war, I would shoot myself. On the surrender of Hong Kong, I can honestly say I did try to commit suicide. I had the, my rifle loaded, cocked, under my chin, my finger on the trigger, but that trigger was just like cement, I couldn't pull it. Which, today of course I'm glad I didn't, I couldn't. Possibly if I had of known what the next, almost three years were gonna be like, I might have had found the courage to commit suicide I don't know. But I did, pardon me. I, after this occurred I, rather than turning my rifle in I took and threw the bullet away and smashed the, the, my rifle over a rock and threw it away.