2010 Conference Timetable

DAY 1. Saturday 9th October

8.45 Arrivals – Reception

9.25 Conference Introduction – Jonathan Moffatt

9.45-10.40 Talk 1.Dr Geoff Gill:"Disease and Medicine on the Burma Railway - experience and aftermath" [Meg Parkes to introduce]

Coffee break

11.10-12.05 Talk 2. Rod Beattie on the V Scheme 'Survival on the Thailand-Burma Railway' [Julie Summers to introduce]

12.05-12.40 Thailand Forum [Rod/Geoff] Julie to chair.

Lunch break [and consultation period] [Rod Beattie: 'Recent discoveries along the Thailand-Burma Railway - a pictorial record" 12.55-1.30]

Talk 3: 1.40- 2.30 Tony Banham - "Women And Children First: Hong Kong's 1940 Evacuation" [Martin Percival to introduce]

Talk 4. 2.35- 3.05 Meg Parkes/Midge Gillies - EPOW Ingenuity & lessons learned. [Jonthan Moffatt to introduce]

Talk 5: 3.10-3.40 Kent Fedorowich- The use of Japanese POWs as sources of Allied intelligence in the Far East. [Stephen Rockliffe to introduce]

3.45-4.00 Students sharing session

4.00-4.10 the FEPOW address

4.15-4.30 A short talk by Roger Mansell [video recording] leading into...

4.30- 5.00 Day 1 Sharing Session and close

Dinner in the National Arboretum Restaurant

DAY 2: Sunday 10th October

9.30 Introductions.

9.45 - 10.40 Talk 1. Bernice Archer: A Patchwork of Internment - The women's experience of Internment in the Far East during the Second World War [Jonathan Moffatt to introduce]

Coffee break

11.10-12.05 Talk 2. Rob Havers: Re-assessing the POW experience: Changi POW Camp [Geoff Gill to introduce]

12.05-12.40 Singapore Forum [Bernice/Jeya/Rob] - Nigel Stanley to chair

Lunch break

1.40- 2.25 Talk 3: Tony Banham: the Secret War in Hong Kong [Keith Andrews to introduce]

2.30- 3.15 Talk 4. Julie Summers: Evacuees from the Far East [Stephen Rockliffe to introduce]

3.20- 4.15 Open Sharing & Evaluation Completion

4.30 Conference Closes

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