Tim Bowden - Stubborn Buggers

On Wednesday July 23rd Your Bookshop and Ryde Library hosted a Sold Out event with oral historian, Tim Bowden. Stubborn Buggers is the true account of Australian POWs at Outram Road Gaol - a military prison that made Changi look like heaven. The Outram story has tended to slip through the cracks when set against the Sandakan Death Marches and slave labour of Thai Burma Railway due to relatively few Australian prisoners who were held there.

In an amazing turn of events, during the question time we realised Bill Young, the youngest POW to survive Outram and whose paintings are featured in the book, was in the audience.

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Tim Bowden with Bill Young

Tim Bowden with YB's Bonnie Serov

Bill Young's presence at the talk was a great surprise to everyone, including author Tim Bowden.

Window display for Stubborn Buggers

Your Bookshop's poster

Legenday Tim Bowden @ Ryde Library

Meet Tim Bowden at City of Ryde Library on Wednesday 23rd of July, 6.30pm

Tim's latest book, Stubborn Buggers is the little known story of twelve Australian POWs who fought and survived the action in Malaya before the fall of Singapore and endured captivity and slave labour, then the unimaginable hardships of Outram Road Gaol. 

There will be light refreshment & copies of Tim's books for sale before and after the event.

Cost: Gold Coin Donation

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