8 Mar 2016

Guard Duty At The Featherston POW Camp - Ray Toomath

From Afternoons, 1:30 pm on 8 March 2016

On 7 March, Jesse Mulligan spoke with David Hill, who's written a book about the former Japanese prisoner of war camp outside of Featherston where in 1943 a riot broke out, which allegedly resulted in the deaths of 48 Japanese POWs and one guard.

That night he got an email from Ray Toomath, who was a guard at the camp. He gives Jesse his version of events: