Roland tells me these fragments littered the ground like snow. "I bottle it up, tend to forget it, want to forget it, but don't always find I'm able to forget it. "When I say hospital it was a hospital in name only. The prisoners refused en masse and, on 2 September, all 15,400 British and Australian prisoners were confined in the Selarang Barracks area. Changi was not just one camp but up to seven prisoner-of-war (POW) and internee camps. Roland and his family were interned in Changi alongside thousands of others. Changi was liberated by troops of the 5th Indian Division on 5 September 1945 and within a week troops were being repatriated. It serves as the detention site for Changi Prison is also one of the main places (though not the only one) where The Prison Link Centre of the Changi Prison Complex in Convicted criminals incarcerated after conversion from a wartime prisoner campConvicted criminals incarcerated after conversion from a wartime prisoner campWho's Who in Australia (Crown Content Melb, 2007) pp 1444: Millner, James Sinclair (1919–2007) "He didn't smoke, I did, and he knew that. The new Japanese commandant requested that all prisoners sign a statement declaring that they would not attempt escape. Jean shows me a tiny black and white photo taken just outside Changi at the time. - Jean de Bruyne, daughter of Roland de Bruyne, Changi/Sime Road Internment Camp Survivor.The dining table is littered with Roland de Bruyne's memorabilia. Eugene Ernest Colman, chess master. Camp rations and supplies were supplemented by the opportunities that work parties provided for both theft and trade. The prison had a holding capacity of 600. Singapore was renamed Syonan-to (Light of the South).

My father was the son of a Dutchman who married a Burmese woman. Japan's entry into World War II changed the situation dramatically for many Australians.More Anzacs than ever before had been captured in the Malayan Campaign, including those caught up in the fall of Singapore when allied troops were ordered to lay down their arms on February 15, 1942.More than 20,000 Australians served, with around 1,800 lives lost in battle and about 15,000 captured as prisoners of war.He blown off HMAS Perth in the Battle of Sunda Strait off the north-west coast of Java while fighting Japanese destroyers. He was taught by his Japanese classmates during their farewell, they were returning to their motherland with their parents. For most of the war, Changi was one of the least brutal Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, particularly compared to those on Burma–Thailand railway. He wrote one of the earliest and well-known POW memoirs of Changi The Railroad of Death, (1946). Roland de Bruyne is a 91-year-old Malaysian New Zealander. Lucky to be alive.There was no petrol, no transport. Worse still was the If starvation and sickness didn't kill you then the 'death railway' would.Many POWs from Changi were sent to work there. Jean notes that perhaps a small mercy that little Jimmy died before the family were interned in Changi. If the prison ordeal couldn't kill him then almost nothing would. Swan Tin was almost the same age as Roland. John Jess has opened up to his family about his time as a POW. Its name came from the peninsula on which it stood, at the east end of Singapore Island.

Weeds can’t be killed, they can survive anything! This was so that Roland and his family could capture evidence of the atrocities taking place.On liberation day, 1945 when the Japanese surrendered to the Allies, the Japanese Commander in charge of Changi walked down to the public square and took his own life by Seppuku.Roland tells me that in 1945 after the Allies liberated Singapore and freed the POWs and civilians, some POWs died after being fed too much good food all at once, killed by unwitting acts of kindness.The biggest problem for the Allies was the sudden influx of people they had to feed and house, now that the Allies had thousands of Japanese POWs, alongside freed citizens and their own troops.Jean reads from a declaration on how to transition back to civilian life, written on pamphlets dropped from the air, distributed by the Royal Air Force:Roland finally walked out of Changi Prison in September 1945, almost three years after his internment and some months after liberation.

CHANGI POW CAMP was opened after Singapore's fall on February 15th 1942 and was the main camp for the captured British and Commonwealth forces.

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