High school memories

[Mike K]

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