High school memories
My old high school headmaster has returned to haunt me....Frank Farmer. He used to mention to us at morning assemblies, remarks of his POW days ..He survived a ship sinking .. the ship was taking a load of POWs to Japan and it was torpedoed by a US sub.. At the op shop yesterday, I found him detailed in a book called 'Return from the River Kwai' .. Amazing . He was incredibly lucky to have survived .. only a handfull made it onto rafts . He was a slave on the Thai railway .
He was a strange man.. he would come into a class , just barge in unanounced and pick some kid out and slap the kid across the face .. I witnessed this myself .. he hit a girl in my class .
He had snowy white hair ... about 60 .
Mike
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1940 cab 11 C8
1940 Morris-Commercial PU
1941 Morris-Commercial CS8
1940 Chev. 15cwt GS Van ( Aust.)
1942-45 Jeep salad
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