by Brigadier P. J. D. Toosey C.B.E., D.S.O
was perhaps more important than we realised at the time that with the Japanese there was " never a dull moment." '
As a territorial officer, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army captured at Singapore in 1942, Brigadier Toosey commanded one of the prisoner-of-war camps set up by the Japanese in Siam for the builders of the jungle railway from Siam to Burma. He considers several unique factors in the experience of this force which, retaining its own military organisation, was confronted with a grave, but in many ways stimulating, challenge.