Some 30 000 of these prisoners of war later worked on the Thai-Burma railway. 1,(shipyard), Tokyo, Japan, JC /257 Kobi, (steelworks), Kawasaki, Tokyo Group, Japan, JC /262 Hakodate Camp, Hakodate Group, Japan, JC /263 Osaka HQ Camp, Osaka Group, Japan, JC /265 Kamo Camp, Fukuoka Group, Kyushu Island, Japan, JC /267 Amagasaki Camp, Osaka Camp, Otani Camp, Japan, JC /277 Kamaishi Camp, Sendai Group, Japan, JC /278 Asano, Garden Yama, Yokohama 13D,Tokyo Group, Japan, JC /282 Narumi 11th Sub Group, Nagoya Group, ( loco factory ), Japan, JC /287 Nagasaki 17, Omuta, Nagasaki Camp, Fukuoka Group, Japan, JC /289 Kamiso, Asano, ( cement factory ), Japan, JC /292 Yakoma Camp, Hakodate Group, Japan, JC /297 Ohama Camp, Hiroshima Group, Japan, JC /298 Funatsa 3rd Sub Group, Nagoya Group, Japan, JC /303 Shigahamyama Hospital, Sendai Group, Japan, JC /305 Nagoya 8B, Narumi, Nagoya Area, Japan, JC /306 Iruka Camp, Nagoya, Tokyo Group, Japan, JC /308 Sakarajima Camp, Osaka Group, Japan, JC /309 Hanawa Camp 6, Sendai Group, Japan, JC /312 Kamyoka Prison, Yokohama, Tokyo Group, Japan, JC /315 Ichioka Stadium, PoW Hospital, Osaka Group, Japan, JC /318 Mitsui Camp, Kawasaki, tokyo Group, Japan, JC /319 Sakata Camp, ( Sakota), Tokyo Group, Japan, JC /322 Ohashi Camp, Hakodate Group, Japan, JC /331 Military Police Station, Sapporo, Hokkadio, Japan, JC /334 Wakasena Camp 10D, Sendai Group, Japan, JC /335 Nagasaki Camp, Fukuoka Group, Japan, JC /336 Kosaka Camp, Sendai Group 8B, Japan, JC /339 Kosei Hospital, Gumichi, Hiroshima, JC /23 Glodok Prison, Gloocock Gaol, Batavia, Java, JC /69 Bicycle Battalion Barracks, Batavia, Java, JC/ 103 Kloet St., Sing Arari, Malang, Java, JC /105 10th Battalion Barracks, Malang, Java, JC /112 Tjilatjas Barracks Depot Camp, Java, JC /113 Bandoeng ( includes Depot Camp),LOG Kangsayo Camp, 13 Pow, 3 Camp, Java, JC /114 Jaarmarkt, Jacomantu, Soerabaya, Java, JC /120 St. Vincent's Hospital, Batavia, Java, JC /141 Koan Pentekoan School, Kampong Mocassa, Java, JC /177 Aalgemene Middelbaar Schoole, Batavia, Java, JC /208 Tjimali L-OG Camp,Tjimahi, Bandoeng, Java, JC /212 No. In the North & Central areas around 3,200 men were incarcerated, with a party of 2,000 men being transported to Burma in May 1942. What will new British PM Liz Truss do on LGBTQ+ issues? Note: there may be duplicated entries for some camp descriptions as camp names and sub names are often confusing: i.e. FAR FROM HOME: More than 2,500 British nationals are locked up in prisons overseas (Image: GETTY) Almost 900 of the villains crammed into foreign hell holes are drug dealers, with 154 child sex beasts and 102 caged for immigration offences. endobj Toilets were traditional Japanese dipping style (open latrines), and POWs had to endure the smell and flies and POWs were used for labour to empty the latrines which usually went to fertilise crops: a common practice in Japan at this time. Sunk off Manila having broken down and remained stranded for 2 months, 383 survivors only. Rashin Maru (AKA Canadian Prince/Potomac). endobj Sailed from Sandakan Borneo to Labuan Island 0n 30th august 1943 arriving 3rd September with 8 POWs. This was not enough to keep the Japanese at bay and the British surrendered on 15 February 1942. More than 12,000 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and tens of thousands of forced labourers perished during its construction. Cofepow.org.uk is now making images of some original documentation and prisoner release/questionnaire forms. History note Cataloguer Backlog History note Catalogue date 1977-07 Object details Object associations Associated subjects Original documents Miscellaneous Documents In the first place, they refused for the greater part of the war to recognise, except in Japan, Shanghai and Hong Kong, the right of representatives of the Protecting Power and the International Red Cross Committee to pay visits of inspection. You are here: Home 1 / Clearway in the Community 2 / Uncategorised 3 / list of british prisoners in thailand. E -Borneo, Left for Sandakan on 28/3/43 1000 men strong, on the SS de Klerk. The firing squad, consisting of four Indian National Army* soldiers stood some 50 yards away. x]u\?t#-%""e! 4 0 obj The first wooden bridge over the Khwae Yai was finished in February 1943, followed by a concrete and steel bridge in June 1943. <> Donald the Duck kept as a pet of POWs in Siam -and brought home to the UK. Relatives of British Malayan civilian internees can, by appointment, visit the Imperial War Museum Reading Room to view similar details of Changi Gaol internees in the Changi Register and view other short details in the 1940 Malayan Directory. Left Singapore carrying 525 POWs 23/12/44 and arrived Moji Japan 13/01/45. These nurses joined up with a group of men and injured personnel from the ship. As Commander of all POW and civilian internee camps, Suga was responsible for the many atrocities that took place in these camps, including the Sandakan Death Marches. The result of this was that International Red Cross Committee delegates were able to visit only 43 camps and Protecting Power representatives only, whereas there were (at the end of the war) 102 camps in Japan, Formosa, Korea, and Manchuria alone. During the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines in World War II, Camp O'Donnell was the final stop of the Bataan Death March and was used as an internment camp for Filipino and American prisoners of war. The registers give minimal information about each prisoner which may include registration card number and dispersal information. A harrowing account of the sinking and murder of many POWs is found in the book Ships from Hell: Japanese War Crimes on the High Seas in World War II By Raymond Lamont-Brown. They racially abuse and discriminate against western people that are residents in Thailand with a family for over 30 years, westerners there are the exa. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Changi prison. He would help anyone in need, she said then. For most of the war, Changi was one of the least brutal Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, particularly compared to those on BurmaThailand railway. Despite the physical support they were giving me, the pressure of life inside had quite an effect on my mental health. It is reported that least 1,000 of these inmates are foreigners normally held in Building 2.The institution is a huge prison complex housing both men and women. Its not a secret that female prisoners across the globe face some unique challenges. The list contains over 1700 names and is particularly interesting as a record of the decimation, by disease or untreated wounds, of prisoners working on the Burma-Thailand railway. 13 0 obj It had 4 floors, 440 meters long X 110 yards wide, with walls and the roof made of concrete. Opened in 1941, this housed 3,700 allied civilians released by US Rangers and Filipino Guerrillas on February 3rd 1945. However, there are also cells in the prison which hold up to 5 people with a small toilet area. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. The United States has bilateral treaties with Bolivia, Canada, France, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Thailand, and Turkey, and is a party to two multilateral conventions, the Council of Europe (COE) Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, and the Inter-American Convention on Serving Criminal Sentences Abroad.. (Applications for prisoners seeking transfer to/from Canada, France, Panama, and . Westerners, often taller than most Thai prisoners, admit that overcrowding is a horrendous problem. Some prison cells have a hole in the centre of the ground that serves as a toilet for up to 80 prisoners at a time in a small cramped room. 15/5/42 Some 2000 Dutch & British POWs from Sumatra were transported to Mergui, Burma. The organisation of POW camps in Japan was repeatedly reformed and rearranged, so the main camps, branch camps, dispatched camps and detached camps opened during the war numbered about 130. Grashio and his squadron commander, Lieutenant Ed Dyess, eight other Americans, and two Filipinos escaped from a work camp in Davao Region, the Philippinesinto the jungle on Sunday, April 4, 1943. These are unfortunately not as yet digitised and available online they require a visit from either the person searching or a researcher on your behalf, some spellings are incorrect, however, these are the listings directly from the National Archives register. In addition to those two hospitals, POWs were sometimes sent to nearby Army hospitals or hospitals that belonged to the companies where they worked. On top of the main hatch cover, 80 men were sleeping. {iIQIkMJt>-)7ID';%%Fg1lHSNC|!_m6by>?ttTb)'V$LvayXT:M0JXPe[TidX ]e.M*.]Bk01J FYhl4Y>!.&FL>b1sxskZ1"tj8]~l|NIx+Jc2k These will contain the following sections: Camp, name, nationality, place of capture, fathers name, place of origin, next of kin and address, POW number, date of birth, unit and service number, date captured, mothers name, occupation and some other remarks. Dainichi was torpedoed on 08/10/43 by USS Gurnard, along with another Japanese ship, she was carrying a troop transport of over 2000 at this time. He was found guilty for ordering the execution of the four POWs and on 7th April 1946, he was executed, by shooting, at the same spot where the four POWs died. The 110 most severe cases were taken to a primitive military hospital in Kokura where 73 died within a month. Only 11 men escaped via holes in the perimeter fence, they later testified in war crimes tribunals. 2 0 obj Sadly, many prisons across Thailand havent changed for decades, and people are forced to live in dehumanizing conditions, cramped cells, and witness daily brutality. Initially, there were Japanese language lessons for officers, at first compulsory, then voluntary. But he broke the law - one mistake nearly cost him his life during a 27 month prison sentence in a harsh Thai jail. Which are all released under the terms of Creativecommons.org/licenses/by-s/3.0/. ", Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. About 270 died aboard the ship, from suffocation or dehydration or were killed in the attack or from drowning while escaping the sinking ship. Pathway to Chungkai By Maurice Rooney There are no Aust However, living conditions were difficult. The camps were mainly set up in mines and the industrial areas such as Keihin (Tokyo and Yokohama), and Hanshin (Osaka and Kobe). The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Paisarn Dunkum, says the distributor submitted all required paperwork . At the end of the war, the Japanese Armed Forces destroyed all documents related to the POW Camps. . He has done wrong, but there is a reason he got mixed up in all that, everything that was going on, she said. To-151 Kamioka Prison (Gummyoji) Yokohama. These men had no assurance that the Japanese would respect the persons of neutral nationals any more than they did those of the nationals of enemy countries. endobj Conditions in Thai prisons are some of the worlds most notorious. The survivors of the sinking of the Oruku maru (see above) were held for several days in an open tennis court at Olongapo Naval Base. Many prisoners, however, indicated that because of the availability of fresh vegetables in the warmer months and local fish during winter, rations were in some ways better than at Jinsen and Keijo. This is less than the percentage for Japanese run camps as a whole and brings into stark contrast the fact that for this to be 10% officially, the other camps, notably on the Burma-Thailand railway were far higher than the average death rate of 27%. The survivors were put aboard the Brazil Maru which arrived in Moji, Japan, on January 29, 1945. Billy was held in Chiang Mai. It left Manila on 13 December 1944 and over the next two days was bombed and strafed by American planes. The Tokyo and Osaka Camps had attached hospitals, Shinagawa POW Hospital, and Kobe POW Hospital, which treated seriously ill patients from each branch camp. 12 0 obj Sailed from Singapore to Nagasaki (Japan) via Takao (Taiwan) and Manila (Philippines) departed 3/6/44 arrived finally on 21/6/44 with 450 POWs. No water and very little food were provided for the majority of this journey. Wales Maru (AKA Weills Maru and Byoki Maru). Departed Singapore with 1065 POWs on board bound for Moji (JAPAN) via Manila (Philippines) on 4/7/1944 and arrived in Japan on 9/8/44, the main body of POWs were ex Burma railway and this was the only ship in the 3 ship convoy to carry Australians. Havelock Road and River Valley Road Camps also had the unusual distinction of running a Masonic Lodge but this ended when numerous POWs were sent to the infamous Burmese "Death Railway". RELATED: 15 Weird Pictures Of Food (Taken By Tourists Who Traveled To South-East Asia). Around 1500 servicemen & women were captured in South Sumatra and many were taken onto Singapore. <> The Japanese Army was responsible for the administration of the camps, but the Japanese Navy wanted to interrogate pilots they captured in an attempt to improve their naval intelligence. Of the 267 Australians onboard only 72 survived. All the other guards received long prison sentences. The chain of command responsibility that led to Yamashita's execution is now referred to under war crimes as the Yamashita standard. Tha Sao 130 KM -Group 4 of D party from Singapore worked here. The captain of the ship, Shin Kajiyama, was acquitted, "as he had no chance to prevent any atrocities". Exact departure dates are confusing since some sources state 3rd June and some 5th June 1944. The Hiroshima Main Camp absorbed Zentsuji POW Camp making a total of seven main camps. Conditions in Thai prisons are some of the world's most notorious. This applies to most Thai prisons and certainly Klong Prem. His conviction is currently under review in Thailand, and we are hopeful it will be overturned. The best site to research POW records from Taiwan is Michael Hurst MBE's POWTaiwan.org, - highly recommended. <> There are many incidents of particular barbarity within the 3 years+ of Japanese captivity, here are a few of the more infamous. He claimed that inaccurate information about him had been supplied to the Thais and this had affected his case. For Japanese from various parts of the Commonwealth, there were to be exchanged Commonwealth civilians who wished to leave China, Japan, Thai-land, and Indo-China. These contain basic details of each POW and in Japanese on the back additional information - that on POWs who died is particularly informative. H-Thailand 3270 pows left 5/5/43 and disembarked Bam Pong, 1979 men were British in this party, many of which had arrived in Singapore in February from Java. They were forced to engage in the hard labour of constructing railways, roads, airfields, etc. The Japanese military police (Kempeitai) used Outram Road Gaol in Singapore as a place of punishment for all those who broke their rules prisoners of war, internees and local people. In General, no direct access to the POWs was provided to the International Red Cross. <> The railway had been surveyed in the 1900s by the British but the route was considered too difficult to construct due to the terrain of deep valleys and high mountains. In most camps blankets were provided by the camp, however, many POWs reported that the severe winter cold adversely affected their health. Deck space was also used for the prisoners. Answer: Absolutely horrific. Later that day Suga formally surrendered to Brigadier Thomas Eastick, the commander of Kuching Force (a detachment from the Australian 9th Division) at Batu Lintang camp. Sailed from Java to Singapore 28/10/42 carrying 500 POWs which were then transferred to the Dainichi Maru for travel to Moji, Japan. The shots wounded the four but did not kill them. list of british prisoners in thailand list of british prisoners in thailand. To prevent the rescue of prisoners of war by the advancing allies, on 14 December 1944, Japanese guards herded the remaining 150 POWs at Puerto Princesa, Palawan Island, into three covered trenches used as air-raid shelters which were then set on fire. Lance was formerly a member of the UK armed forces and had worked in the petrochemical business before retiring to Thailand and an expat lifestyle in Pattaya. Thailand has the largest prison population in Southeast Asia, with about 282,000 inmates in its 143 jails, mostly on drug convictions. A Kempeitai Prison rather than a fully fledged POW camp, located in Rabaul town itself, https://www.awm.gov.au/events/conference/2002/degroen.asp, Please enter your password, it must be 8 or more characters, I agree to Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statement, Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its activities during the Second World War, Vol,1,p.451, prisoner-of-war and internment camps in Japan, Allied prisoners and civilians in Japanese hands, Ships from Hell: Japanese War Crimes on the High Seas in World War II, Japanese Registers of Allied Prisoners of War (PoWs), www.paperlessarchives.com/FreeTitles/POWCampsOutisdeJapan.pdf, Many exclusive records, found only on our site, 1 on 1 Personal assistance from military photo and document experts, Access to Orbats mapping tool, allowing you to trace your WW1 ancestors steps. The most notorious use of forced labour was in the construction of the BurmaThailand 'Death Railway'. We urge people to consider the unsanitary conditions, overcrowded cells and the constant threat of disease before they get involved in drugs. This list may not reflect recent changes. original documents on Thailand camps (RG 24 Box 6) - Report on camps by John Slaughter (Royal Norfolk Regiment), with maps; Swiss telegrams re USS Houston survivors, list of Ameri Prison meals in Thailand consist of unidentifiable vegetables and rotting meat. 5) were killed when the U.S. Battleships bombarded Kamaishi City 22 were killed in Kawasaki Ogimachi Branch Camp (Tokyo No. Carried 1,000 prisoners from Makassar, Celebes to Nagasaki, Japan beginning October 10th, 1942 and arriving 13 days later. The Oryoku Maru was a 7,363-ton passenger-cargo liner that the Japanese used to transport 1,620 survivors of the Bataan Death March, Corregidor and other battle sites. When Singapore was attacked in February 1942 Blakang Mati became a major target and the guns of were actively engaged in fighting off the Japanese attacks, even firing overland during the last three frenzied days of battle. Repair work continued and both bridges were operational again by the end of May. Prisoners experienced severe mistreatment, and several deaths occurred. The senior British senior officer at Keijo, Lt Col Elrington held the perception that Australians were being particularly targeted. Sometimes those soldiers in charge of guarding the prisoners around the camp and the work site were dispatched from a nearby regiment or other units. The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. Generally, the Japanese guards were responsible for providing rice and other ingredients for meals, and the POWs took turns preparing the food. As stated earlier, the moral worth of the crime weighs the most, and even minor crimes can be punished severely. More than one in five of them died there. There was once a Roman Catholic Chapel and also a small library consisting of books collected from some of the houses near the camps. 1600+ British POWs arrived here on May 20th 1943 from a 300-mile march from Ban Pong. They expressed their thankfulness for having escaped from the semi-starvation of their internment camps, as well as their anxiety for the health of those they had left behind in Japanese custody. She also revealed that her son receives great comfort and hope from receiving letters and visits at the prison. Thai prisoners work for little money and often, to survive in prison, they need outside funds. endobj RELATED: Tourists Face 10 Years In Prison For Vandalising Ancient Wall In Thailand. Even though one of Thailand's prisons, Bang Kwang in Bangkok, is sarcastically referred to as the Bangkok Hilton, the truth is that prison cells are no five-star hotels. Sailed from Singapore to Moji, Japan departing on 6/9/44 and arriving in Japan with 900 POWs on board. K & L-365 men of themedical forces left Changi in June and August 1943 for Thailand and worked in the various hospitals along the railway. In 1918 she was acquired by the Johnstone Line of Liverpool, who renamed her Hartmore in 1920 and sold her in 1921 to the Anglo-Oriental Navigation Company (part of Yule Catto), Liverpool, who renamed her Sureway. By the end of Sept. 1945, nearly all of the 32,000 Allied POW's in Japan . Besides, that sent on exchange ships, mail for prisoners of war in the Far East was by July 1942 being transported across Russia to her Pacific seaboard and thence to Japan, under an agreement reached with the Soviet Government. ; Presidente Bernardes Provisional Readaptation Center (Presidente Bernardes, So Paulo, Brazil) - inspired by the Supermax standards, although prisoners can only stay there for a maximum of 2 years. Many of the deaths happened immediately after the POWs arrived in Japan from South East Asia. Last edited on 26 September 2016, at 04:45, British people who died in Japanese internment camps, British extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:British_people_imprisoned_abroad&oldid=741224859, This page was last edited on 26 September 2016, at 04:45. 3 0 obj Built by the Hong Kong government as a refugee camp before the war (as was North Point POW Camp), it began life as a POW camp soon after Kowloon and the New Territories were abandoned to the Japanese. This was the first day in my new home. She also says that her son is sorry for the crime he committed. This extract courtesy of The New Zealand Historical publications branch: In their negotiations with the Japanese through neutral channels, the Allied authorities never ceased trying to obtain from the full information concerning the Allied nationals in their hands, regular facilities for the sending of relief supplies and mail, and permission for neutral inspectors to visit prisoner-of-war and internment camps. The river was renamed the Kwai-Yai in the 1960s after the film, the rivers name in WWII was the Mae Klong. In all there are 14,324 prisoners of which 14,125 are males and 199 are females.[3]. Site of the infamous Palawan massacre where Japanese troops with Kempeitai (Military police) officers murdered 139 US POWs. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It is almost certain that had the war lasted even a little longer, the number of the POW deaths would have been much greater given the shortages Japan was experiencing toward the end of the war. Elsewhere in the Pacific some 10 000 British, Canadian and Indian troops were captured when Hong Kong fell in December 1941 and further 5000 in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) in early 1942. News of those held in the Dutch East Indies seems to have been withheld the longest. The family of Lance Whitmore are hoping that the young man will soon be transferred to the United Kingdom under the International Prisoner Transfer program enacted in 1984 by Thai authorities. FAR FROM HOME: More than 2,500 British nationals are locked up in prisons overseas, DRUG SMUGGLING: Michaella Connolly and Melissa Reid have been convicted in Peru, AROUND THE WORLD: USA is the country holding most British cons, GRIM PLACE: Kerobokan Prison in Bali where Lindsay Sandiford is being held, GRANDMA: Lindsay Sandiford is behind bars in Bali. Sailed from Manila to Davao departing on 1/7/42 the journey lasted 8 days and had 200 POWs on board. list of british prisoners in thailand. Took over 1000 Australian POWs from Changi POW camp Singapore (probably Selerang barracks as that was the Australian camp) sailing on 15th May 1942 for Belawan/Medan in northern Sumatra. [ 15 0 R] Suga was based at Batu Lintang internment camp, although he was usually elsewhere at the other POW camps under his jurisdiction. Register with your email address now, we can then send you an alert as soon as we add a record close matching the one you were searching for. G-Japan leftChangi and sailed from Singapore for Japan on 26 April 1943 on theKyokko Maru. The POWs assembled at places such as Nagasaki, Nii-machi in Shizuoka Prefecture, Yokohama, Omori in Tokyo, Chitose in Hokkaido, and by the end of September, most of the POWs had returned to their home countries via Okinawa and Manila. Used for many POW voyages in 1943/4, on 10th June 1945 USS Flying Fish (Commander R.D. Escapes among Caucasian prisoners were almost impossible because of the difficulty of men of Caucasian descent hiding in Asiatic societies, nearly all of those who attempted to escape were executed in front of their fellow POWs upon recapture, in some camps a further 10 POWs were also executed as a reprisal for the escape attempt. On the other hand, she reveals that there are times when she finds herself crying all the time for fear of the unknown. She says that it is the same for her son and his father but that the family must keep it together to get through the shared ordeal. It was just brilliant and it really helped. Tarsau (Nam Tok) - 131 KM from Non Pladuk II, 284 KM from Thanbyuzayat. Sailed from Singapore to Manila on 04/7/44 with 1287 POWs on board arriving 15 days later. Their tasks involved the cleaning up and repairing of war-torn parts of the city and the badly bombed Chinatown area. A Babar Ahmad Syed Talha Ahsan Haroon Rashid Aswat B Leo Baron Ernest Bethell Conrad Black Edith Bone Kamel Rabat Bouralha Lee Bradley Brown Mervyn Brown Carmel Budiardjo C Linda Carty Sheila Cassidy David Cecil (producer) Brian Charrington Harold Cole D Cosmas Desmond E El Shafee Elsheikh F Joshua French G John Edward Greaves Sandra Gregory "The conditions could be so dirty that I had a small cut on my foot which got infected with tap water and swelled up to twice the size so they thought they might have to amputate.". It was torpedoed and sunk 30 July 1945 by USS Sennet (SS-408) off Hokkaido. John Davies, who has just arrived back in England after being freed from a life sentence in Bangkok, said he had always protested his innocence but had received little help from the British authorities. But we were starving we just ate it, we had to. 5 laws to watch out for in the Philippines. According to the findings of the Tokyo Tribunal, the death rate of Western prisoners was 27.1%, seven times that of POWs under the Germans and Italians. Debbie reveals in her Facebook post that she sometimes also feels down or low when contemplating the ordeal that still lies ahead for her son and her family. Kachidoki Maru (AKA Kakko maru/President Harrison). A key theme in Debbies online pronouncements is religion and the support it offers both her and her son in what appears to be hellish situation. 6318 British and 2815 Australian POWs are counted within these deaths. Show more. sailed from Singapore on 16 May 43. Situated in Lushun Manchuria and built by the Russian occupation forces in the early 20th century. He said his son had witnessed two stabbings and an attempted rape up to that point while imprisoned there. Carried 1100 POWs from Singapore to Moji (Japan) on 30/10/42. At mid-morning, the ships officer returned with about twenty Japanese soldiers. 1 Camp, Copper mine, Taiwan, Formosa, JC /58 Heito, No. Halfway between the capital (Tokyo) and Yokohama this artificial island in the bay had barracks surrounded by a bamboo fence. endobj The harshest conditions were endured by the prisoners who were sent to work on the railroad between Burma and Thailand, known as the "railway of death". list of british prisoners in thailand 21st May 2022 . A 17,000-ton transport ship sunk by the submarine USS Gudgeon 28 April 1943 at 10-18N, 121-44E, Ship sunk by USS Sailfish (SS-192) 4 December 1943. After the Japanese surrender, Argyle Street Camp became a centre for displaced people returning to Hong Kong. There is no guarantee that Lance Whitmore will be transferred back to the United Kingdom immediately although authorities do seem to be moving quite quickly with his case. its the last stop. The better conditions in the Korean camps were reflected in the low death rate (2.7%). In 1944 the officers were moved instead to Camp 'N' at Shamshuipo, and the Indian POWs from Ma Tau Chung Camp took up residence. Lance Whitmore pleaded guilty to the charges against him in 2015. I was paranoid with fear convinced that people were talking about me because I couldnt understand what they were saying. Departed from manila on 1/10/42 destination and cargo unknown. Mr Davies, who has a previous conviction in the UK in the 1960s for obtaining money by deception, has written an account of his time inside which he hopes will be published. 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