There are also specific nominal lists for RAF POWs held in the Changi camps under AIR 40/1899 and Air 40/1906. These listings include the following specifics for each person: Name, first names, rank, serial number, date of capture, date of liberation, branch of the services & camp* -we will continue to add more information as we source it. The two bridges were successfully bombed on 13 February 1945 by the Royal Air Force. However, in reality, they couldn't communicate with family more than once or twice during the duration of imprisonment, and there were camps where the POWs were not allowed to communicate with the world outside the camp at all. Carried 1100 POWs from Singapore to Moji (Japan) on 30/10/42. Suga attended the official surrender of the Japanese forces in the Kuching area by their commander, Major-General Hiyoe Yamamura, onboard HMAS Kapunda on the 11th September 1945. Of the 1210 people on board, a total of 339 were lost that night, 308 workers (including POWs), 26 prostitutes and 5 Japanese soldiers. *3 Australian war memorial archiveshttps://www.awm.gov.au/events/conference/2002/degroen.asp. The surviving POWs then suffered treatment on a par with the worst of all the POW camps. Jimmy Kelly was sentenced to 30 years but spent just three behind bars for selling crystal meth at the bar he owned in the southeast Asian country. Don was amongst some 900 British P.O.W.s aboard the Kachidoki Maru, being transported from Malaya to Japan. 15,029 men were treated in the hospital and 806 died and were initially buried here. On Borneo there were Japanese-run internment camps at Batu Lintang, Kuching, Sarawak, Jesselton (later Kota Kinabalu), Sandakan and briefly on Labuan island. None survived. Lances mother is deeply committed and devoted to her son as is his father. I was hoping for a much shorter sentence and Im totally devastated, he said. At the Konan camp, some of the work was physically harder, such as stoking carbide furnaces. 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. There is some dispute about the length of time he will have to serve ranging from 10 to 20 years but it certainly will be a long term of imprisonment in a UK prison. There are some Japanese who claim that the Japanese Army did their best to secure food for the POWs under the wartime conditions, but there is no denying that the POWs were in a poor physical condition toward the end of the war. See "Death on the Hellships" (pp. He commenced working with the Thai Examiner News Desk in May 2018. stream On the average New Zealand page 351 next-of-kin waited 18 months for the first news of their prisoner or internee relative; the news even then was often only a card or a message over the Japanese-controlled radio. Best known prisons (mostly from 19th century or older, mainly still in function except the Katajanokka Prison and Kakola): For a longer list of prisons in Germany see Liste der Justizvollzugsanstalten in Deutschland (in German), There are 45 Prisons in Ghana which are managed by the Ghana Prisons Service. It was this incident that prompted the famous POW rescue raids later in 1945. Prison food is not only tasteless and limited but often infested, and incarcerated tourists are forced to eat maggots to survive. In a night raid in late January 1945, under the cover of darkness and a distraction by a P-61 Black Widow, the group of US Rangers, Alamo Scouts (a US special reconnaissance unit) and Filipino guerrillas surprised the Japanese forces in and around the camp. She was deliberately scuttled by the Dutch to prevent her from falling into enemy hands but the Japanese refloated and salvaged her in 1942. The father broke into tears when his son was lead away again back to prison that day. A Japanese officer ordered the remaining twenty-two nurses and one civilian woman to walk into the surf. Davies, who had a labour contracting and helicopter servicing business in Thailand, was arrested in 1990 and accused of heroin dealing. They were joined there by 300 Chinese internees. endobj I saw a motionless body on a damp-stained mattress, insects hovering over him. She said this mental condition had led her son to become vulnerable to the influence of others. Research & Articles by Lt. Col. Peter Winstanley OAM RFD (Retired), JP : Guestbook: . Sailed from Hong Kong to Japan (Moji) via Taiwan in December 1943 carrying 500 POWs. Taiwan camp specialist site: very accurate rosters and painstakingly researched data. 11-THB-123456 SMITH JOE - THAILAND or CON-1234 SMITH JOE . Lance Whitmore pleaded guilty to the charges against him in 2015. Once it was discovered that the island was held by the Japanese, an officer of the Vyner Brooke went to surrender the group to the authorities in Muntok. The two camps were only separated by a small river/canal with a bridge built across it. The Japanese transferred most of the prisoners to other areas, leaving just over 500 seriously ill American and other Allied POWs and civilians in the prison. 2) by an air raid, 31 POWs were killed in Toshiba Tsurumi Branch Camp (Tokyo No. Generally, the Japanese guards were responsible for providing rice and other ingredients for meals, and the POWs took turns preparing the food. Jinguashi (Chinkuashih) in modern-day Taiwan Kinkaseki is the Japanese name for it, ran from 1942-45. Prison meals in Thailand consist of unidentifiable vegetables and rotting meat. In many cases, with UK prisoners in Thailand with very severe sentences, the quickest route to release, even when transferred back the the United Kingdom has still been the issuance of a Royal pardon from the Thai King. From British mathematician Arthur Thomas Doodson's Tide-prediction machine, and PLUTO (short for 'pipeline under the ocean . Colonel E. B. Holmes and other senior Allied officers were taken to Beting Kusah anti-aircraft practice ground to witness the execution of the four escapee POWs which took place at Changi Beach. Bilibid new Prison opened in 1941 on the site of the former old prison and was converted into a POW camp after the Japanese occupation. Sean Flanagan from Cumbria was sent to Pattaya Remand Prison Thai authorities took seven months to investigate death Initially claimed he fell off wall before admitting he was assaulted twice Man. This was a special camp where the POWs captured by the Navy were held before they were transferred to Army control. In the early hours of the 16th September, she hit a mine north of Labuan, listed quickly to port and sank. The prisoners resorted to digging trenches in the parade grounds as latrines. Billy was held in Chiang Mai. 5 0 obj 32,418 POWs in total were detained in those camps. Despite the physical support they were giving me, the pressure of life inside had quite an effect on my mental health. Two torpedoes hit the hull of the ship which sank, killing several hundred American, Dutch and Filipino servicemen. Sign up to the Daily Star's newsletter. With Interpols most wanted campaigns stepped up, that figure is now believed to have passed 2,500. 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. However, prison time in Thailand, at any institution, is not easy particularly for foreigners and especially, according to reports, in recent years with severe overcrowding and the consequent need for tighter prison discipline. 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. This has been published in the Royal Gazette of Thailand on 05 . Prison life is intimidating and disgusting. 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. A complete roster for POWs transported on this ship can be found on the website www.lindavdahl.com. 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. endobj After wandering for three days in the swamp, they contacted a band of Filipino guerrillas. Censorship was a prime difficulty in the way of prompt delivery: piles of uncensored mail were found in some Japanese camp offices on liberation, and it seems probable that some were destroyed to avoid the work involved in censorship. For instance, a Brit was charged for defending himself after he had been attacked by a Thai gang. 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. There is no accurate total number for the number of deaths on this march although estimates range from 5,000-10,000 Filipinos and 650 US troops. THAILAND_POW_Camps_rosters (WO 361-2171) - Numerous . Some rosters show if living, dead or killed in action (KIA), cause of death and burial site. Liberation came between the 24th and 30th August 1945 when the POWs were transported to Pekanbaru, although too late for the near quarter of all allied POWs who died from disease, malnutrition, starvation and brutality. The first project for the prisoners was to clean the building. The following sites are all very highly recommended for further specific research. <> It is also the seat of Thailand's execution chamber and death row. 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. The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Paisarn Dunkum, says the distributor submitted all required paperwork . An island at the south of Singapore Island itself and the nearby beach was the scene of the infamous executions of those POWs who attempted escaped from Selerang POW camp in Changi province. Rashin Maru (AKA Canadian Prince/Potomac). Thai prisons, for male prisoners and hardened criminals at maximum security institutions at least, are notorious for providing poor quality rice and fish heads to those who cannot afford to buy their own food. (We have a copy of The Prisoner of War magazine from February 1943 which notes a visit to Woosung camp Near Shanghai, China and mentions 3 of the main camps in Japan proper as having had visits). From June 1944 women and children from Poeloe Berayan were interned here & in July 1945 they were moved to Aek Pamienke II near to a rubber plantation. 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