[Ken Martin - interview on Featherston POW camp]

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Year
1986
Reference
330195
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1986
Reference
330195
Media type
Audio
Categories
Interviews (Sound recordings)
Sound recordings
Duration
00:07:26
Credits
RNZ Collection
Barry, Maggie, 1959-, Interviewer
MARTIN, Ken, Interviewee

Former prisoner-of-war camp guard Ken Martin is interviewed about a Shinto religious ceremony to bring peace to the souls of dead Japanese POWs, held near the site of New Zealand's only World War II POW camp.

He recalls the riot in which 49 prisoners and one guard were killed in February 1943.