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Place of Birth: Summer Hill, New South Wales, Australia
About Rowley Richards
- Charles Rowland Bromley "Rowley" Richards (8 June 1916 – 26 February 2015) was an Australian Army medical officer who, as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, is credited with saving countless lives on the notorious Burma Railway where prisoners suffered and died under inhumane conditions.
- Journalist Andrew Denton described him as "as good a man as this country has produced".A graduate of the University of Sydney, Richards became Regimental Medical Officer of the 2/15th Field Regiment in 1940.
- When Singapore fell on 15 February 1942, he became a prisoner of the Japanese.
- In September 1944, the transport on which he was being shipped to Japan was attacked and sunk by US submarines.
- He spent three days on a raft before he was picked up by a Japanese warship, and spent the rest of the war in Sakuta in Japan. Richards returned to Australia in October 1945, married and established a private practice.
- He served as chairman of the St John Ambulance Association, as medical adviser to the Australian Olympic rowing teams, and as honorary medical director of the City to Surf.
- He published two books about his wartime experiences.
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