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Former POWs share their memories

Now aged in their nineties, two Australian survivors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps have shared their grim memories of war.

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By Gareth Boreham

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Max Gilbert is determined that the world doesn't forget atrocities committed during battles close to our shores, on the Indonesian island of Ambon.

While Harold Ramsay has a new outlook, after travelling to Japan for the first time since the Second World War to receive an official apology.

Watch the full interview with Former POW Max Gilbert

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