“My Precious Inner Sanctum Remains Untouched, Untrammelled Through War & Famine:” William Allister’s Prisoner of War Diary
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Abstract
This article explores the Second World War prisoner of war diary kept by William Allister, who served with C Force, the Canadian formation sent to garrison the British colony of Hong Kong in late 1941. After the Japanese victory on 25 December 1941, Allister and his fellow survivors endured several years of brutality, malnutrition and disease in the prison camps. In the face of nearly unbelievable hardship, Allister kept a detailed diary and created works of art that provide new insight into the shattering effects of his wartime imprisonment. Allister’s story is included in the Canadian War Museum exhibition Forever Changed – Stories From the Second World War (2020).\nCet article porte sur le journal tenu par William Allister alors qu’il était prisonnier de guerre pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Allister servait au sein de la force « C », la formation canadienne envoyée pour tenir garnison dans la colonie britannique de Hong Kong à la fin de 1941. Après la victoire japonaise, le 25 décembre 1941, ses compagnons survivants et lui ont été brutalisés et affaiblis par la maladie et la malnutrition pendant plusieurs années dans des camps. Face à des épreuves à peine imaginables, Allister a tenu un journal détaillé et créé des oeuvres d’art qui apportent une perspective nouvelle sur les répercussions, bouleversantes, de son emprisonnement en temps de guerre. L’exposition Vies transformées — Récits de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (2020) du Musée canadien de la guerre raconte ce qu’il a vécu.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".