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We were then ordered to make a stand just at the rear of the Folice Stn. and held a position until relieved by an Indian Army Lewis Gun team. Col. Rawlingson C.0. of the Rajputs then told us they intended to withdraw until the morning and suggested that we go to the top of Mt. Parke and wait for him there, in the mean time finding somewhere to put Porrit, who was very badly wounded in the legs. It was after this that S.I. Johnson took up a position on the hillside and said he would stay there as he thought there was safety in that position. We left him and continued up Mt. Parke carrying Porrit hoping to find a clearing station at the top.
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(Later after we had been taken prisoner we returned down this same road and saw S. I. Johnson dead where we had left him, surrounded by Indian soldiers).
Before reaching the top of Mt. Parke heavy artillery and rifle fire broke out all about us. Sgt. Willerson went on ahead trying to contact our lines ahead, but the Japs were there first and he ran into an ambush and was killed.
At about 4 a.m. on the morning of 19th we were taken prisoners. Porrit was led away we heard afterwards that he too was dead. That was the finish.
Sgt. Loughlin, Sgt. Campbell and myself were the only ones left. We were sent to Argyle St. Camp and then to Sham Shui Po. We were joined by a 2nd Sgt. Campbell and a Sgt. Woodhead, who came from the Q.M. Hospital. We made many attempts to rejoin the H. K. P. at Stanley but the Japs said that we had been fighting and were P,0.W's.
On 28th Sept. 1942 we were sent by the "Lisbon Maru' Japan. She was torpedoed on the 1st Oct. off the China Coast about 10 miles from land and eventually went down
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