Sydney interviews 2017

Aerial view of the Parramatta Central Business District in the western suburbs of Sydney. (AAP)

Aerial view of the Parramatta Central Business District in the western suburbs of Sydney. (AAP)

Sydney interviews 2017

5th May 2017

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In May 2017, the project returned to Sydney to conduct some further interviews, including with Val Hinton, wife of Cecil Hinton, and their daughter Gladys Constantine, who spoke about Cecil’s experiences as a PoW during World War 2. Cecil was held prisoner in Changi for 3 and half years. Val and Cecil were married after he returned from the war and Val talks about what it was like living with a man who had been so severely traumatized by his war experiences. Both Val and Gladys recall the severe health problems Cecil brought back from the war and the nightmares he suffered on a regular basis. Val and Gladys also talk about Cecil’s struggle, and failure, to get housing after the war and his fight to get a TPI pension, which was not paid until after he had passed away. We also spoke with Cecil’s grand daughter Tamara Giles about her memories of her grandfather Cecil.

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