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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1119/
- Published: 2024-12-15T17:30:50.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-15T17:30:49.000Z
- Description: When he was released from the prison camp – weighing just 47kg – medics told him the years of ill treatment would likely knock at least 10 years off his life.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> [New Zealand](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/new-zealand/?ref=goodoil.news)’s oldest man and former prisoner of war James “Jim” Easton has celebrated another lap around the sun, hitting the grand old age of 108 this week. \[...\]  
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> During World War II, Easton was a prisoner of war, [surviving three-and-a-half years of starvation, sickness, and beatings](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zealands-oldest-man-jim-easton-celebrates-107th-birthday/BUIQV2BK7ZCIFG3ROWT2NO4GKE/?ref=goodoil.news) at the hands of the Japanese. While captive he spent time constructing[ the notorious Burma railway](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/anzac-ghosts-haunt-railway-of-death/WQJCRJ3FV467FZPRYVGMX7J5BM/?ref=goodoil.news), dubbed the “Railway of Death”.  
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> When he was released from the prison camp – weighing just 47kg – medics told him the years of ill-treatment would likely knock at least 10 years off his life.  
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> “Not much different to how it felt to be 101,” he said on turning 108.  
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> When asked what he enjoyed most about his Army service, Easton replied: “Trying to get out!”

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2024/12/Jim.jpeg)

Jim Easton pictured on Christmas Day in 1945\. Image credit: Ryman Healthcare.

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