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Description
Mr. Atkinson describes being tethered together with wire during their march to North Point Camp. One soldier, badly enough wounded that he can't keep up, is cut out of the line and bayoneted.
Transcription
The next morning when they moved us out, none of the wounded, they wouldn’t let us take any unless they wanted to walk. They tied us up in groups of four with our own telephone communication wire, our hands were behind our backs tied and they put a loop around your neck and four or five of you together and if your hands dropped or anybody else slackened off it tightened on your neck not like a garret but it tightened enough to bother you. A kid from I think it was Carmen, Manitoba, I can’t remember his first name, Kilfoil, had been wounded and couldn’t keep up and all that the Jap guard did was just cut him out and we continued on. And we heard Kilfoil scream but we just could imagine what happened to him, I imagine they bayoneted him and shoved him over the cliff.