It is the moment that spells the end of the war to 96-year-old Wal Williams. AnzacDay2019 lestweforget
Serving as a private with the 2/19th Australian Infantry Battalion, he was held prisoner of war at Changi, worked on the Burma railway and was being transported on a Japanese boat when it was hit by two torpedoes from an American submarine.Australian War MemorialHe reaches for his magnifying glass in his room at the War Vets Village in Narrabeen. "My eyes are shot, that's the only thing that's really wrong with me," he explains."That's a good snap that.
"I went out and met my folks in Paddington and it was like walking into a different world. I only found out later that the army had told my father and relatives that they weren't to discuss the war. "I think it did me a lot of good mentally. I wasn't a nut-case or anything like that. I'd bottled it up all those years.
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