The Widow and Her Hero

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Nearly a quarter of a century ago, I was asked by the South Australian Film Corporation to write a screenplay on the extremely Homeric war-time operations against Singapore, from Australia, named Jaywick and Rimau. The film was never made. Since then, more and more information on these operations has become public knowledge, and though incidents which occur in this tale bear a debt to the two real wartime operations against Singapore, and though the real issues of Operation Rimau, and the beheading of its operatives, provide a spark for this tale, this narrative is not meant to be a roman à clef of those times and characters.

Thus the characters here presented, their motives and their inner souls, are not meant to reflect the actions, motives and inner life of any person who lived or died. There was, for example, no World War body named IRD (though similar organisations did exist). Nor were any battalions of the Royal Ulster Fusiliers part of Singapore’s garrison. And so on.

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