J.P. (Jim) Walshe, Splinter's story ... And We Were Young.J.P. (Jim) Walshe, Splinter's story ... and we were young, Literary Productions, Sydney, originally published 1989, new edition 2005, revised 2005, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0646452371, 96 p., phone (02) 9528-0444, fax (02) 9528 4445, $19.95. Five vivid accounts of Australia's resistance 1941-45 to Japan's southwest thrust in World War II told by a young infantryman, Jim 'Splinter' Walshe. Inspired by his father's exploits in the First World War--at Gallipoli, Bapaume, Villers-Bretonneux, Mont St Quentin, Peronne, and other major battles--19 year old Jim Walshe enlisted the militia in September 1939 transferring to the AIF AIF Annual Information Form AIF Apoptosis-Inducing Factor AIF Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie (French: Intergovernmental Agency for Francophony) AIF Australian Imperial Force in June 1940. Drafted into the mortar platoon of the 2/30th Battalion, he found himself embarked in 1941 for Malaya. He was among the first Australian troops to oppose the Japanese thrust into Malaya. As 'Splinter' to his mates, he reports in fast-moving incisive images five 'stories' of the spirit and tragedy of what followed: Too Long a Day; A Trench with a View; To Singapore and Surrender; Prisoner of War PRISONER OF WAR. One who has been captured while fighting under the banner of some state. He is a prisoner, although never confined in a prison. 2. In modern times, prisoners are treated with more humanity than formerly; the individual captor has now no in Japan; Release--The Land is Bright! Jim Walshe survived the battles on the Malay Peninsula Malay Peninsula (məlā`, mā`lā), southern extremity (c.70,000 sq mi/181,300 sq km) of the continent of Asia, lying between the Andaman Sea of the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca on the west and the Gulf of Thailand and the and three and a half years captivity by the Japanese. Having been a shop assistant when he joined the AIF in 1940, he found employment on his return to Australia as a clerk with Civil Aviation at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Kingsford Smith can refer to:
Noun 1. NSW - the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare Naval Special Warfare Region). |
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