Posted by sigismund on April 10, 2018, at 1:05:31
In reply to Re: I make no comment » sigismund, posted by beckett2 on April 9, 2018, at 0:25:57
From an Australia partially gone.......
There are many people and experiences that have nurtured my life. But my experience serving under Weary Dunlop has had a lifelong and lasting experience on me. We were at a place called Hintock Road Camp or, as Weary called it, Hintock Mountain Camp. Weary is a name of respect. He would tax our officers and medical orderlies and the men who went out to work would be paid a small wage.
We would contribute most of it into a central fund. Weary would then send some of our people out into the jungle to trade with the Thai and Chinese traders for food and drugs for our sick and needy. In our camp the strong looked after the weak; the young looked after the old; the fit looked after the sick. We collectivised a great proportion of our income.
Just as the wet season set in a group of about 400 British camped near us for shelter. They had tents. The officers took the best tents, the NCOs the next best and the ordinary soldiers got the dregs. Within six weeks only about 50 of them marched outthe rest died of dysentery or cholera. In the mornings when we would walk out to work, their corpses would be lying in the mud as we passed them. Only a creek separated our two camps. On the one side the survival of the fittest the law of the jungle prevailed, and on the other side the collective spirit under Weary Dunlop. That spirit has always remained with me.
Tom Uren, MHR, ALP.
Somewhere else he said of the same thing.....'That's my politics'
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