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Name:	Kate Muir
Location	New Zealand
Email:	harrispk@xtra.co.nz
Comments:	I am looking for information about my mother Adriana Georgina Grootenboer (aged 10 years in 1945) and my grandmother May Turner who was a teacher who were both kept in a prisoner of war camp in Sumatra, and evacuated to Singapore at the end of WW II. Both survived.

Name:	Joye Slater
Location	Sydney
Comments:	Peter, Your article about the life of Captain (Dr) Don Cumming's life and his wartime experiences moved me to tears. Thankyou. I believe you have certainly covered all the main aspects of his life and you have compiled an amazing account of his years as a Japanese POW. I was particularly interested to read Les Hall's notes of Don "treating by voice alone" as for a short time after graduation Don worked at "Broughton Hall" hospital for nerve and trauma patients, which evidently stood him in good stead under the tragic conditions of the camps, and the lack of supplies. Postwar and following his return from London,as you reported, he resumed practices in Newcastle and Sydney, but soon consolidated his professional activites to a very large partnership which he and Dr Ross Moxham built in Paramatta. Except for Don's medical abilities and reputation I think you could describe him as one of this world's "Quiet Achievers", so I appreciate your work in recording the history of men and women such as these true heroes of our time and nation. Joye,(his cousin).

Name:	Rosemary Matthews
Location	Glenmore Park NSW
Email:	rmathews2@bigpond.com
Comments:	A wonderful website bringing descendants of soldiers/POW's together so that memories and information are shared . Is there anyone out there who remembers Sgt. Keith Walter Scott Ireland NX14368, my father. He came home and lived until 1972. He worked as a prisoner of the Japanese on the Burma/Thailand railway at the Burma end of the railway.

Name:	Case Scholtes
Location	Brisbane
Comments:	Son in law of the late Pvt John Browne 2nd 2nd Clearance Battalian Medical Corp POW after the fall of Singapore and served with Weary Dunlop Group on the Burma Railway My wife Cheryle has a video he recorded before his death, she will contact you

Name:	Peta Church
Location	Kyabram Victoria, Australia
Email:	peedi74@yahoo.com.au
Comments:	Thank you for this site. I have been looking for anyone or any information on Private Peter Ripley Gale VX67597, 2/ 10 Ordnance Field Park, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. Disembarked from Singapore on the 26th January 1942, he was then reported missing on the 16th February 1942, & on the 2nd Nov 1942 he was reported as a POW. He left Changi on the 28th March 1943 on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island in the 15th April 1943 he along with the other POW's were held the until the 5th June when they were taken to Sandakan by barge. The next day the were transferred to the 8 mile Camp. After being a POW for 3yrs & 2 mths on the 16th April 1945 my Uncle Peter died. If you have any further information or if anyone new him I would love to hear your thoughts & memories of my Great Uncle Peter Ripley Gale. Thank you..

Name:	Steve Wilson
Location	Perth
Email:	wilson53@optusnet.com.au
Comments:	Enjoyed your company on our recent to Singapore where we visited the Battle Box, Changi Museum, the Ford Factory and other battle sites. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge on WW2 with me

Name:	SHARON
Location	MNC NSW AUSTRALIA
Email:	sfair@dodo.com.au
Comments:	My granmothers younger brother was a POW in the ww2. I believe he was in Malaya. I have been trying to find out which camp he was in. I havn't been succesful yet. Can anyone tell me where to look for the names of soldiers in the camps? I've trolled through the govt sites to no avail.His name was Richiu Charles Stewart Abraham from Bull NSW Australia.

Name:	Julie
Location	Virginia
Email:	julie.pressley@ubsh.com
Comments:	My grandfather was a POW ( still alive) . He was one that was captured and was shipped to Burma to help build the BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI. He came down with beriberi but somehow survived. He has a plaque honoring him in Fredericksburg TX Nimitz museum. He is not in the best health and recently went into a nursiing home facility. I know him as the best chocolate milkshake maker.

Name:	garry alexander
Location	mooroopna victoria australi
Email:	yangary@opusnet.com.au
Comments:	Thank you Peter inform me about the war as I was not born. I had an uncle James Thomas Downie 2/29 Bn, who was over there. If any one knows anything about him and what happened to him it would be appreciate most greatly. my e mail is yangary @optusnet.com.au

Name:	Ross Dews
Location	NSW
Email:	five.8litres@hotmail.com
Comments:	My grandfather was a prisoner of the japanese in changi during the war,i do know that towards the end of the war he was shipped to camp fukuoka #14 i think,but im not sure if he made to work on the Thai-Burma railway. I have done research and the australian war memorial isnt much help and even claim that a photo that they have on their website of my pop,isnt even my pop?!!!Even though i know it is...Who can i contact?Its wrong!

Name:	rob disspain
Location	perth, western australia
Email:	disspain2@hotmail.com
Comments:	my favourite uncle (in the UK) was John Everrett. He spoke fluent japanese and was employed , by the RAF in espionage in Burma - where he was caught and tortured. would be grateful for any info regarding this period and subsequent periods of his life.

Name:	Wayne Pelling
Location	Mitcham,Victoria,Australia
Email:	pellhacst@optusnet.com.au
Comments:	Thank you Peter for your excellent profile on Dr Alex White,who was the doctor who delivered me and was our family doctor until about 4 years before he died. I believe it was bowel cancer perhaps brought on by suffering amoebic dysentery whilst he was a POW. I also saw the late great Dr Glyn White in action when I was undertaking midwifery nursing 25 years ago and read of his work on Death Railway. The book of Ecclesiasticus chapter 10 sums up my feelings "their bodes are at peace ;but their name liveth for evermore".

Name:	Kevin Lloyd Rees
Location	Bridgend, Wales
Email:	kl.rees@ntlbusiness.com
Comments:	I am trying to find out information relating to my grandfather who died in 1993, he was a Japanese POW from I believe 1942-45, his full name was Elwyn Charles Lloyd Rees, known as Charles or Charlie, he was from St Clears, Carmarthen, South West Wales. He never spoke to my father or my grandmother about his experiences and I wish that I had the chance to ask him more as I got older. Is there anyway of finding out where he was stationed, are there any lists kept of the POWs? I would appreciate any help that you could offer. Many thanks, Kevin (19/03/08)

Name:	John Lease
Location	Clifton, Virginia
Email:	jlease@fdic.gov
Comments:	My father's cousin Lewis McFadden was a POW. He was a gunner on the USS Houston who was captured after the ship sank in 1942. He never forgot how the Japanese treated him. My father was also a WWII vet but was fortunate enough to not be captured.

Name:	Becca
Location	Australia
Email:	luv_angel_music_baby72@hotmail.com
Comments:	hey all im doing an assignment in school on the Japanese treatment of prisoners of war and i found that i have i am moved and touched by POW's stories i want to learn as much as i can about the trials and suffering of prisones of the japanese. I would really appreciate it if any one knew any websites or books that provide factual information on the lives of POW's in WW2. I am touched and deeply moved by the amazing tales of survival and suffering of past and present prisoners of war

Name:	Tony Wege
Location	Nuriootpa SA
Email:	wege@internode.on.net
Comments:	Thanks for your website. Like so many people these days, I am trying to find out about our families' past. In my case it is my step-uncle, William G Gass of the 2/4th reserve motor transport company, POW of the Japanese April 1941 until September 1945. His military record has nothing for this period. He died only two years after he returned home - motor accident. Now 60 plus years later, I am trying to document his story. Where do I start??

Name:	Chris Brown
Location	Scotland
Email:	the_lighthouse@btinternet.com
Comments:	My name is Chris Brown, I am a military and social historian (Ph.D., St. Andrews) and I am currently compiling information for an academic study of the day-to-day lives of POWs and Internees of the Japanese Captivity. I am anxious to hear from anyone - military or civillian - who would be willing to share their memories with me. I am perfectly happy to respect the confidence of anyone who - for whatever reason - might like to remain anonymous. If you feel you would like to take part in this project, please e-mail me at the address below. Yours, Chris Brown.

Name:	Shirley Barnes
Location	England
Email:	sgblay@aol.com
Comments:	Really pleased to see that there are still those who respect the sacrifice made by so many.My Dad, who is 87 and still going strong, was captured at Singapore. After being at Changi, he was taken to the Thailand, to work on the railway. He was at Bampong, Kanburi,Tonchon, Tarsao and Tamarkan. He was taken back to Changi much later and sent in the hold of a ship to Japan. The ship was the Kachidoki Maru, which was sunk by the Americans, and after being in the sea for eight days, was picked up and taken to Japan, where he was put to work in the camp at Sakata. He was released in 1945 weighing less than six stone. As far as he is concerned, he has been living on borrowed time since the fall of Singapore, so has enjoyed every day he has had since then. Mt dad has always been able to talk about some of his experiences, but it is only in recent years he has talked about the more horrific things he witnessed or had done to him. I listen because he has to tell me, but it's not easy to hear what he has to say. He does not hate the Japanese butlike me , has no respect for a country that is still not able to acknowledge what they did to so many people from so may countries. He has long ago given up hope that the Japanese goverment will accept that they did anything wrong and offer him some compensation for his sufferring, but still hopes that they will be able to look at themselves and at least find some small amount of common human decency and say sorry. We all assume that they are labouring under the misapprehension that if they hold on until the last person who they damaged, dies, that they will have got away with it. They are seriously wrong, as the children and grandchildren of FEPOWs will not forget either. Thanks again for the site and keeping the memories alive.

Name:	Georgina Shaw
Location	UK
Email:	georgina.shaw@kch.nhs.uk
Comments:	Very good website. I am trying to find any info on my uncle Walter Paterson Dougherty from Glasgow. I was told he died in Burma on the railway. But am unable to find him on the War Graves site. He was tall and had red hair, I was told he suffered badly at the hands of his captors due to his height. Has anyone heard of him (probably in a Scottish Regiment)

Name:	Jyotsana C
Location	Adelaide South Australia
Comments:	Thanks Peter for including Dad's (Ian Campbell) information on your site. He would have loved to have his stories included here. Like many other returned soldiers he spoke little about his horrific experiences, never to us as children, and did not condone war . He would occasionally relate humorous POW incidents to us. Something that stood out for me, reading his diary, was how he, and the other young prisoners of war, became sicker much more frequently as the years went on. No wonder he did not complete writing his diary. In his old age Dad struggled to receive a war pension. His comment about 'the shrapnel in his head being a war wound' expressed his sarcasm in response to previous letters from government bodies that said his ill health was not a result of his POW experiences. Thanks again Peter.

Name:	NEVILLE DAVIS
Location	BRISBANE
Email:	nevdavis@bigpond.net.au
Comments:	CONGRATULATIONS, PETER, ON A WONDERFUL CONCEPT . IT IS GREAT THAT YOU HAVE RESEARCHED THE EXPERIENCES OF THE POW'S ON THE RAILWAY SO EXTENSIVELY AND IN SUCH DETAIL

Name:	Terence Clifford
Location	Sydney
Email:	terry@clifforddirect.com.au
Comments:	I have just been advised about your great website. I am trying to find out about my grand parents and father. My grandfather and his wife, George & Anne Clifford and their daughter Jo, who where in the Japanese POW camp in Borneo. They were planters in Malaya. Also looking for details on my father Major John Clifford who was with the British Army in Force 136 who was dropped into the jungle with 6 others to recruit villagers to train and fight the Japanese. I have some information and I'm looking for more places I can look or details that your readers may have. Can anybody assist? Thanks in advance. Terence Clifford.

Name:	ALAN RICHES
Location	UK
Email:	ASRICHESFAMILY@AOL.COM
Comments:	My father Henry Charles Riches was a Staff SGT in RAMC. He was awarded BEM for his devotion to duty in Tonchan cholera outbreak in 1943.He was also in River Valley RD. WAMPO,KINSAIYO,NAKONPATON,MERGUI RD, He was in 9th Coast Reg, 125 anti tank,Indian Medical. its a long shot but if anyone has any information I would be grateful I also thank Peter Winstanley for his much appreciated help.

Name:	James W Turner
Location	Kiryat-Gat Israel
Email:	jamesturner@walla.co.il
Comments:	Thankyou Peter for this web site.My grans brother James b Miller-Kelly Just want to remember my grans brother James b Miller-Kelly who died in japanese capitivity 31/10/1942 in Sumatra we dont even have the name of the camp.Thankyou Peter for this web siteOur families have never recieved an apology from the Japanese govt on the pows Time has not been a good healer.

Name:	Ken Broadhead
Location	Sydney, Australia
Email:	broadheads@bigpond.com
Comments:	This website and the research it is based on will ensure that the suffering that allied POWS endured will remain on the public record indefinitely, and thereby confer a form of immortality on these men and women. Having now made two visits to the sites of the Burma Railway in Thailand I am more than ever in awe of the endurance and strength displayed by Australian and other Allied prisoners. I am also increasingly angry at the poor strategic and operational decisions made by politicians and senior commanders which led to so many of our people becoming prisoners of the Japanese.

Name:	Robyn Lim
Location	Brisbane/Nagoya
Email:	rbynlim@yahoo.com
Comments:	I would like to establish contact with any former POW who was in Camp 26 in Fukuoka. (Aso Yoshikuma coal mine)

Name:	Margaret Webster
Location	Tamworth Australia
Email:	gmwebs@hotmail.com
Comments:	Great to stumble on your informative website. I am seeking information on my uncle, Max Dudley Smith (NX29700) of the 8th Div. Sigs. He worked on the Thai-Burma Railway but died at Kanburi on 7.10.43. He was in F Force, Ponds Party with Dr Roy Mills at medico. This a found out after reading Roy Mills book and I was very excited to read my uncle name in his list of medical records, the first direct reference to Max Smith which I have found. His only relatives back in Australia were a brother (Frank Graeme Smith - my father, now deceased) and a sister living in Brisbane. Both Maxs parents had died before him and so it is ut to me, his niece, who never met him, to search for information. Also could someone please give me the address or website for VicEddy, the magazine of 8th Div. Sigs. I dont know much about my uncles movements in Singapore or Thailand. He was a strong Christian and apparently belonged to a group of Christians in Changi know as the "Rabid non-conformists". Does this ring a bell for anyone. Any information would be most helpful.

Name:	David Flynn
Location	Boca Raton, Florida USA
Email:	dflynnesq@adelphia.net
Comments:	Peter, your web site and its content - words fail me in attempting say how wonderful and informative it is. I was a survivor from the USS Houston, and met many wonderful Aussies, English and Dutch as a Japanese POW. Itruly enjoyed your guestbook and comments. I saw many familar names. Thank you, David Flynn

Name:	John Connell
Location	Cootamundra - NSW
Email:	connjc@bigpond.net.au
Comments:	Keeping their memorary alive will eventually lead to a greater understanding of what the AIF achieved in their endeavours to defend the Malay Penninsula against the odds that were stacked against them

Name:	John Connell
Location	Cootamundra, NSW
Email:	connjc@bigpond.net.au
Comments:	I was only 8 moths old when my oldest brother left for Malaya as a reinforcement for the 2/19 Bn. The scars of the campaign can still be felt today - my family was lucky - my brother was to return home and share in our family life for many years. Many other families were not so lucky and it is only by good hearted people researching the massive material that is now surfacing that many answers will be found. You have created a great site to visit and to research... thank you so much for you contribution to our history.

Name:	Gai Segol
Location	Queensland
Email:	gaicroyston@bigpond.com
Comments:	Thank you Peter for all the information you have given me. I wonder if there is anyone out there who remembers Harry Stewart Gardiner (Jazz) who was in the 8 Div. Provost Corps. He is my mothers brother and as I am researching our family I would like some more information about Uncle Harry. From what I can gather he was on the Thai Burma Railway and then sent to Japan where he was in the mines at Omuta Fukuoka Camp 17, when the A bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. If anyone remembers him, or his name has come up could you please email me. Thank you again, your web site is a truly marvellous endeavour. Keep up the good work.

Name:	Eve Craven
Location	Geraldton, Western Australia
Email:	karslake@wn.com.au
Comments:	My late husband, James Craven, joined the British Army (Royal Army Medical Corps) in 1935. After serving in Britain and India he was later sent to Malaya and Singapore (commissioned into the RIASC). He was captured by the Japanese and sent to Changi. From there he went, in June 1942, to work on the Burma Railway. He actually volunteered thinking he could maybe have a better chance of escaping, and was in the first group to be sent to work on the railway. He recorded many of his trials, and those of the other POWs, enabling me to write about his war years. ("A Kind of Destiny" by Eve Karslake Craven - now out of print.) Thank you, Peter, for keeping this history alive.

Name:	Peter
Location	Perth W. Australia
Email:	stix1@iprimus.com.au
Comments:	Thank you Peter for a very interesting talk which you gave on the POWs of Japan. If only there were more of you to keep up the good work that is on your Website, then perhaps the youth of the world would not be in such a mess as they are now. Many thanks.

Name:	Hilda Fitzgerald
Location	canberra
Email:	hildafitzgerald@netspeed.com.au
Comments:	I have read the articles with great interest, having become more aware of the story of the PoW ,after nursing a wonderful doctor at our aged care facility.I had so much admiration for this elderly gentlman, that i accepted to address a conference, regarding issues being faced by veterans, and veterans living with disability.I would love to hear some comments from veterans ,about a such an important issue.

Name:	Elizabeth van Kampen
Location	Tilburg in the Netherlands
Email:	evkampen@home.nl
Website:	www.dutch-east-indies.com
Comments:	Peter, I am more than pleased with your webside and the Books I may read. Since I grew up in the former Dutch East Indies, today Indonesia, I have always felt close towards the Australians. I have also an eye witness of the Australians and Dutch guerilla transported in bamboo pig baskets. I was only 15 years years old when I saw this and what has touched me even deeper were the cries for water and help in English and Dutch. It was and is in my eyes unforgivable. I read an awful lot about World War Two, and what the Japanese military have done to so many innocent people. I have only started reading about this war since 1995, before that I couldnt even talk about it, nor about my Dad and uncle killed by the Kempeitai in Indonesia, Java. I am very grateful to you Peter that I may read how also many others have badly suffered under the Japanese occupation. We must never forget what has happened between Pearl Harbor(1941) and Tokyo in 1945. Thank you very much! And greetings from Holland to Australia. Elizabeth

Name:	Jan (John) Berg
Location	Perth
Email:	opaberg@bigpond.net.au
Comments:	Thank you Peter for informing me about your website. Thanking you for including my diary as well. I passed your website on to ex POW friends in the Netherlands as well as there is a lot of information in it that affects ex Dutch East Indies Dutchmen as well.Will keep in touch. John

Name:	Capt. George W. Duffy
Location	Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.ofA.
Email:	geoduffy@thepipeline.net
Comments:	Peter: You asked me to put something here that perhaps would jog a few memories. Most former prisoner on Java will remember the 72 British and American merchant seamen who were handed over to the Japanese at Tandjong Priok in early November 1942. We eventually went to the Cycle Camp. Later some of us went to Kampong Makassar. In June of 1944, some of the crew of the AMERICAN LEADER were sent to Japan. On their last night at sea the TAMAHAKU MARU was torpedoed by the U.S.S. TANG. Of the eighteen AMERICAN LEADER crew mebers only five survived. At the same time, a small number of us went to Sumatra via Singapore where we worked on the Pakan Baroe railway. In September 1944, 2200 prisoners and 4300 Javanese laborers left Batavia in the JUNYO MARU. She was torpedoed by H.M.S. TRADEWIND with an enormous loss of life. Four of the AMERICAN LEADER crew were drowned. When we left New York in April 1942 there were fifty-eight men aboard. Only twenty-eight survived the war. For related articles, go to http://www.usmm.org See my window on opening page.

Name:	Ron Lobegeiger
Location	South Australia
Comments:	Why is there no mention of Sandakan in an other wise excellent site. It appears no one wants to mention The horiffic treatment handed out to the diggers at Sandakan and Ranau.

Name:	Teun Heijstek
Location	The Netherlands
Email:	teunheijstek@hetnet.nl
Website:	home.hetnet.nl/~teunheijstek/mizumaki.htm
Comments:	Not only for my search for descendants of Dutch POWs who died in World War II in detention in Japan is your website helpfull but also for people who know less or nothing about what had happened in WW II. Kind regards to you all Teun Heijstek.

Name:	Eluned Schweitzer
Location	USA
Email:	elunedrib@hotmail.com
Comments:	Found this website while browsing in Bangkok on business trip - will visit the River Kwai memorial next week where my uncle David Youdell was a prisoner from 1942 to the finish of the railway, following which he was moved to Japan to work in the mines. Thank you for keeping up the recollections. If anyone has come across a D. Youdell please let me know. Best regards, Eluned

Name:	ray jacobs
Location	melbourne
Email:	rjacobs@melbpc.org .au
Comments:	Dear Peter You have a very special website &thank you for all your assistance especially in regard to my Fathers diary that is on your site. Ray Jacobs

Name:	Audrey
Location	Florida
Email:	dacamcfly@earthlink.net
Comments:	My Mother was in a camp in Indonesia. She share very limited stories with us. Now as an adult and with my Mom gone, I have been reading everything I can to learn what she must have experienced. Does the name Irvine Nabilcy or Wiggers ring a bell to anyone?

Name:	John Dickson
Location	Scotland
Email:	jalbem@hotmail.com
Comments:	My Brother Died in Nikkie Thailand 2nd September 1943,member of 2nd Gordons Captured in Singapor

Name:	wiliam van Ginkel
Location	Hamilton, On. Canada
Email:	wvginkel@execul;ink.com
Comments:	Keep up the good work. Searching for a jap prisoner of Bangkong camp, Java by the name of Friedl Stadler

Name:	Kevin Roberts
Location	Erowal Bay 2540
Email:	wro54880@bigpond.net.au
Comments:	Thank you for printing this on the Web. I am always interested in the history of our POW. My uncle Bert Roberts lost his life on the way Japan afyter the fall of Singapore. After my father died in Scottsdale TAS, in 1955 Ray Denney looked after me until I finnished my schooling at the end of 55. Ray was a quite bloke never talking about his years as a POW. I have his book The Long Way Home. He autographed it Peace in Your Time. EX LAMAE Fleet Air Arm RAN

Name:	Graham Reader
Location	Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Email:	greader@uwindsor.ca
Comments:	Excellent site. I am particularly interested in the Timor information as my dad was there with the 79th Battery of the 21st LAA (R.A.). Also being ex-RN I am interested in Naval/Militray history in general.

Name:	linda
Location	camden
Comments:	I was very moved by the accounts written of POWS experiences. My grandfather was a POW a signaller with the 8th Division. I never really got to know him, he died when I was seven. Thanks to all those that put their stories out there, makes me very proud of being your fellow Australian.

Name:	Harry MEDLIN
Location	Crafers West, S.Aust.
Email:	hmedlin@chariot.net.au
Comments:	Well done Peter. I am pleased that you have my Reminiscences including Timor, Tsuji, my 2006 Bangka Island massacre Memorial Address, my POW experiences and lessons etc.. You may put whatever you like of it on your Website. I have also written about our ACTION with and then capture by the Japanese on 23 February 1942 but that is Embargoed at the present time. Keep up the good work. Best wishes and regards. Harry.

Name:	Oebe Wal
Location	Friesland, Netherlands
Email:	oebewal@hotmail.com
Comments:	This is a very good informative site. As a boy I was imprisoned by the Japanese on Java island. At present I am trying to put that period on paper at the request of my children. Since many pows were in Kampong Makassar, just South of Batavia, I might get some information from them on the following gap in my memory. Where was the main gate of this internment camp located? Was it directly on the main road Batavia-Buitenzorg, or more inside and off that road? And, was the large house of the Japanese commander of the camp in- or outside the main gate? Thanks for your attention, Oebe.

Name:	Oebe Wal
Location	Oosterwolde Holland
Comments:	Dear friends, I was pleasantly surprised by the quick answers I received on my question about the location of the main gate of the WW2 POW camp Kampomg Makassar just S of Batavia ( now Jakarta). Thank you. I did not receive a conclusive answer; but the reactions were helpful and interesting. Maybe one of the readers can help me still further? Since in Kampong Makassar (or in short KM), some 1200 Australian POWs were interned from April 1942 onwards (just one month after the capitulation of the NEI), it is clear that this camp plays an important role in the Australian WW2 history. Let me therefore tell you a bit about KMs past and present. To many of you this might be no news, but to others it could be informative. Before WW2. In the eighteenth century large areas of land S of Batavia were bought by wealthy Europeans from the local landowners. The lands were transformed into plantations for commercial crops. KM became under German and Dutch owners a flourishing coconut plantation. And later on a coconut selection farm where also pigs were raised. The owners built a large Dutch colonial mansion. Around 1925 the plantation and mansion was sold to the NEI govt and the house became in the thirties the barracks for the Veldpolitie, indigenous police. The plantation was located some six km S of Meester Cornelis (Jatinegara), a Southern suburb of Batavia (Jakarta), and placed E of the road to Buitenzorg (Bogor). Bogor was 40 km to the South. On the E fringe the farm was bordered by the vale of the small river Tjipinang, with paddy fields or sawahs. This fringe was an alluvial N-S ridge only between 1 to 2 m above its surrounds , 200 m wide and 400 m long. West of the ridge there was a drain and before the WW a narrow strip of paddy. The said ridge, on which the Japanese build the barracks compound of KM, was some 700 m E of the said road and the mansion 300 m. During WW2. The Japanese occupation, soon after the allied surrender on March 8 1942, started the construction of the POW camp on the alluvial ridge. Well suited, because of its isolation. Even towards mid 1945 the camp was not detected by the allies. The camps Japanese commandant, as well as the Japanese, Korean and Indonesian (heiho) guards were housed in the mansion (known as Kampong Makassar or Tjililitan Besar). Both Indonesian contractors and POWs build the long primitive bamboo huts with palm leaved roofs in only a few months under Japanese supervisory force. By April 1942 KM already housed a substantial number of Australians. During the next two months more were brought in from areas around Tasikmalaja, where most Aussies had themselves interned. KM was for the 1200 inmates relatively good bearable, mainly because of the , at that period still "humane" Japanese camp commander Tanaka and the tactfulness of Cnl Dunlop, the Australian commandant. From January 1943 KM became a transit camp for thousands of allied en Dutch POWs, awaiting further transport overseas via Tantjong Priok harbour. After October 1944 too many Japanese vessels were lost and the sending abroad was halted. Most remaining POWs were transported to Bandoeng ( 15th Bat.) and Batavia (10th Bat. Or Cycle camp) Conform the new "strategic insight", vulnerable women and children were interned in coastal regions, where allied landings were expected. KM became from early 1945 a camp for women and children, a so called work camp for production of vegetables ( for other camps) and of pigs (for Japanese stomachs). After Japan surrendered on 15 August 1945, KM remained a concentration and protection camp for its remaining population because of the threats of Indonesian independence groups towards none indigenous people. We ( my mother, smaller sister and myself )were transported to Bandoeng (to be reunited with my father) in a heavily guarded train ( by British-Indian troops) on 28 November 1945, as one of the lasts. After WW2 The Dutch greatly improved and refurbished KM in July 1946 and used it as a transit camp for Dutch military engaged in the actions against Indonesian independence forces. After the transfer of sovereignty to the Indonesians end 49, the camp was after 1955 "taken over" by squatters from elsewhere on Java. They were attracted by the big city Jakarta and its, often disillusioning , opportunities. Presently one can no more recognise the former barracks compound. Its a hotchpotch of huts, shacks and other constructions. The mansion, however, is still there, albeit very neglected in its maintenance. Fortunately there is hope fore a restoration since it has been declared a national architectural monument. It is now almost completely "packed in" by buildings. A large area W of the mansion, where vegetable fields were located during WW2, is now occupied by buildings of the main hospital of the Indonesian Police. The new Jakarta to Bogor tollway is as far as I can judge just cutting into the Western fringe of the former barracks compound. If you intend to visit the ex-KM it is off the Kramatjati Old Bogor road and walk down the Jalan RS POLRI until you hit the mansion.

Name:	Christy Chappell
Location	Indiana
Email:	cchapps@yahoo.com
Comments:	I am very interested in contacting other Dutch Indonesian POWs. My husbands grandfather never speaks of the war and I have recently been reading what few books I can find to educate my children on their heritage. Any contacts or rec. reading would be greatly welcomed!

Name:	Elizabeth Strong
Location	New Zealand
Email:	Elizphil@hotmail.com
Comments:	Just read in our local paper an article about pows who worked on the Burma Railway . The name of the prisoner has the same name as name(maiden) of ny late husbands mother and I was wondering if this soldier mentioned in the article could be related. His name was given as Private Harry Mann, Royal Corps of Signals, from Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. My late husbands family came from Yorkshire. Any information would be most interesting to receive

Name:	Elizabeth Cummins
Location	New Zealand
Email:	elizphil@hotmail.com
Comments:	Seeking information about Pte Harry Marsden, Royal Signal Corps, originally from Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, who was taken prisoner of the Japanese in the fall of Singapore and worked on the Burma railway. seeking information of Pte Harry Marsden, of the Royal Signal Corps, originally from Keighley, West Yorkshire, England

Name:	Scott
Location	U.S.A.
Email:	scott@theramseys.org
Comments:	Hello to all. I just wanted to say thank you to all the WWII veterans out there, and a special thank you for the POWs that endured the camps. I just wanted to pass along that I have been interviewing and collecting stories from WWII veterans since June 2004. Since then I have also made a video in tribute to them showcasing some WWII Museums and Memorials in the U.S., and would like to send a copy to any veteran that would like to share his or her story with me. There is NO charge for the video, as I do NOT accept money for the video. It was made to thank you for your service, determination, courage and sacrafice during WWII. Please contact me if you have any questions and I hope to hear from any WWII veteran overseas. Take care, and thank you again. A wonderful site for POWs. Scott

Name:	Clive Nicholls
Location	Stratford-upon-avon, United Kingdom
Email:	clive@butterflyhotels.co.uk
Comments:	To add more information to my earlier entry - my father was a Lieutenant in the RIASC, which I am still trying to find more info on. he was captured in feb 42 and sent to NO 1 Malayan POW camp, Changi until May 43. His commander was Col Holmes. He was then in transit to Bampong, Kamburi and then Tonchan. I have all this info from the questionnaire he completed whichis held at Kew and which has been kindly obtained for me by Michael Greenwood who is researching his grandfather. My father then worked building the railway at Tonchan and in July 43 at Hintock River Camp. It appears that he was ill after this as in August he was at Kamburi hospital. Then in Dec 43 he was at Sime Road until May 44. May 44 until August 45 he was in Changi Goal. He returned to the UK on board the Ekma. Any info would be very useful as it is only now that I feel I should be researching my fathers experiences in the far east and I am 55 !! and my father died when I was 7 of a heart attack brought on by his maltreatment. he had to have a leg amputed in the early 50s and was obviously not well since returning. My mother would never talk about it. She has recently died so I feel able to research !

Name:	Clive Nicholls
Location	stratford-upon-avon, United Kingdom
Email:	clive@butterflyhotels.co.uk
Comments:	Congratulations on your excellent site. I am researching my fathers time in the far east and at last I am getting somewhere. He was in hospital in Kamburi, Thailand having suffered badly at Hintock River Camp.

Name:	Craig Woodhall
Location	Puckapunyal, Australia
Email:	nellie17@bigpond.net.au
Comments:	Peter, Id like to first of all thank you for placing a very respectful website on the web to present very informative stories of POWs of the Japanese. I stumbled across your site whilst looking for information on my uncle who unfortuneately died as a POW in Timor as part of 2nd/40th Bn. His name was TX8342 Edward Francis Saunders from Latrobe Tasmania. He was my grandmothers brother and the remainder of the saunders family is now gone so I have no information on him at all. As a serving soldier I like to look into my military heritage and would be very interested to hear from any old members of 2nd/40th Bn. Regards Craig Woodhall

Name:	MGBADA EZE
Location	lome, lome togo
Email:	mgbadaigbo@gmail.com
Comments:	Brings back memories, we were with you and others April 2001

Name:	Kev & Dot Drinnen
Location	Brisbane, Australia
Email:	kevdrinnen@hotmail.com
Comments:	Peter, Your comprehensive website is a great supplement to the knowledge we gained on 2003& 2004 Quiet Lion Tours Anzac Day. We look forward to further updates, Regards, Kev & Dot

Name:	Muriel Butler
Location	Birkdale Queensland, Australia
Email:	deanmissy@optusnet.com.au
Comments:	Hi Peter May I congratulate you on a wonderfully informative site. I, too, have a web site 2-26bn.org, which is dedicated to the men of the 2/26 Battalion, which was the only Infantry Battalion raised in Queensland. We and others like us,must do our utmost to make sure that true story of the part Australians played in the war in South East Asia is told and retold. Most folk know about the part Australians played in the Middle East and Europe, but a relatively small proportion know of our involvment in the war with Japan in S. E. Asia, and especially the inhume treatment of the POWs by the Japanese particularly during the building of the Thai-Burma Railway, at Sandakan and in the mines in Japan itself. The true story of Australias involvement in this conflict must be told and retold. People must know the whole gut wretching truth, not some whitewashed, politically correct version, or distorted incorredt versions presented by one particular foreign government.

Name:	Lyn Neal
Location	MANJIMUP, Australia
Email:	lynneal@westnet.com.au
Comments:	Thanks Peter for the excellent work you are doing to ensure that we do not forget the people who enlisted to protect our country, and particularly those who died for us. Ive been reading a few of the books about the Burma Thailand Railway and still have others to read as yet. To say Ive enjoyed reading these books would be a lie - however theyve certainly given a clear insight into the inhuman dealings on the Railway. It is interesting to note that the recollections of Ian Denys Peek in one-fourteenth of an elephant describes the dreadful illnesses and particularly cholera taking a much greater toll on the southern railway than those described where Australian medical officers were in charge and took steps to reduce the spread of the disease. I can well appreciate your deep respect for them and the need to tell their story. Peek does make mention of a big Australian doctor making a huge difference at one of the camps where he was interned.

Name:	Graeme Williams
Location	Perth, Australia
Email:	geejayw@bigpond.com
Comments:	I wrote yesterday of the passing of my friend, Denny Scanlon. I got to thinking what it was that sets men like Denny and his fellow POWs apart. And I guess this could be my eulogy to him After all they suffered, and the heinous treatment they received, so many of them, against the odds, lived well in to old age. They did not let bitterness, anger, or hatred destroy them. Even though they had every right to feel these emotions. They didnt complain about the lasting effects on their health. They just got on with it.They only seemed to speak of the funny episodes of their captivity, and only fleetingly, if at all, about the bad ones. They had extreme tolerance and patience. They had compassion.They even forgave, if not forgot. And who could forget? I think there is something for us to admire and aspire to, in the example they have set. Graeme Williams

Name:	Graeme Williams
Location	Perth, Australia
Email:	geejayw@bigpond.com
Comments:	I am reading your website tonight, as I think with sadness, and respect, for our great family friend Denis (Denny) Scanlon, who passed away today 23/2/06, aged 93. Denny was a member of the 2nd/40th Btn. from Tasmania, and a POW. He was an inspiration to my wife and I, caring, generous, and an absolute gentleman. I have been to Singapore twice in recent years, and each time I am there, I make a pilgimage to the Changi Memorial to pay my respects to all those brave men. It is one of the most moving experiences of my life, and I feel a presence there. I believe all Australians who visit Singapore should place this at the top of their list. Lest We Forget We Will Remember Them Graeme & Sue Williams

Name:	Ian de Renzie Duncan
Location	Paris, France
Email:	renzie@parislive.fm
Website:	www.parisliveradio.com
Comments:	Dear Peter, my Grandfather was Captain Ian Lovell Duncan, medical officer, and I have been greatly uplifted by your work and article on his life as an officer and Japanese POW. Thankyou. Ian de Renzie Duncan

Name:	Daryl Henbery
Location	Brisbane
Email:	webmaster@2-26bn.org
Website:	www.2-26bn.org
Comments:	You've done a great job with this site Peter. I think it's important to get the POW story out so that it will never be forgotton. Webmaster The Official 2/26th Battalion Website.

Name:	MAJ Annette Newell (Ret'd) RAANC
Location	Perth WA, Australia
Email:	annettenewell@optusnet.com.au
Comments:	Reading the articles from this great webpage has given me a special, and sometimes terrifying, insight into what our soldiers and nurses suffered. What an inspiration those people have been! As a Nursing Officer in the GRes and Regular Army I have never seen these horrors of war and hope I never do however I have a wonderful respect and admiration for all those who have served and for Peter who has tirelessly researched and collected these personal stories of suffering, bravery, defeat and triumph. Attending the 2004 Remembrance Day Trip,by the Defence Reserves Association,to the Thai Burma Railway was one of the most moving and informative trips I have done. Thank you for the recent account of Sister Hannah's experiences as a POW.

Name:	Di Allpike
Location	Two Wells, South Australia
Email:	diallpike@bigpond.com.au
Comments:	thanks Peter for telling the stories of these people who should never be forgotten. It has given me an even greater insight to Jim (Jim Allpike WX7064 2/4 Machine Gun Bn, subsequently captured in Java and then associated with 2/3 MG Bn)- a truly remarkable man. I shall pass this information on to his grandchildren. I am proud to have him in my family.

Name:	John Winters
Location	Sorrento Vic. Australia
Email:	jandmwinters@iprimus.com.au
Comments:	Peter, Great additions to your web-site.Have read Tommy Busine's NX77799 story,a wonderful read!!. Had pleasure of travelling with Jim Busine Anzac 2003.A dedicated man in wanting to keep the memories of what happened on the Railway forever in our minds.

Name:	Anthony Rengel
Location	Perth, Australia
Email:	joe_kwel@hotmail.com
Comments:	Hi Peter, Good to see this site is growing. I hope the photos I am sending you can be put to good use.

Name:	George Hulse
Location	Brisbane, Australia
Email:	brisboats@bigpond.com.au
Comments:	Thank you for the insights into what being a prisoner of war to an Asian enemy was like. It corroborates (although you might not want it to) the act in my Troop in South Vietnam of swearing to each other that none of us would be taken alive. We remembered the cruelty of the WWII Japanese, the North Koreans and the treatment of two infantry diggers who were captured by the enemy in 1968, and then found dead in a market place with the obvious signs of death by mutilation. Your work is, in my opinion, a re-affirmation to all our servicemen, that in a future conflict with an Asian enemy, surrender is not an option.

Name:	Peter Russell Scott
Location	Gold Coast, Australia
Email:	holdfast279@yahoo.com.au
Comments:	Congratulations to Peter Winstanley for his efforts in creating a great website. His work is a living and growing memorial to the sacrifice and service of our men and women at war, and I am sure that it will help future generations come to understand the PRICE THAT WAS PAID FOR THE FREEDOM THAT WE ENJOY, and never let anyone take it away. My late father DX561 Sapper Lewis Frank Scott signed up in 1940 and, after service with the 7th Division in the Syrian and North African Campaigns, was cast into Japanese hands by Wavell on Java in 1942. He buried his best mate DX562 Sapper James Russell at Kilo 100 camp in Burma in 1943. Those members of the 2/6 Field Company left alive on completion of the Railway were sent to Saigon, then on through the gates of Hell itself, namely Omuta Camp 17, Fukuoka Province in Japan. They remained there as slave labour in the Mitsui coal mine until the atom bomb was dropped on nearby Nagasaki. Research by Peter Winstanly is helping people understand the terrible treatment and torture our loved ones received at the hands of the japanese and korean guards, and why this may have made their life so difficult when they returned to Australia. For his efforts my family thanks him most sincerely.

Name:	Rick Hayes
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Email:	mrdurtal@bigpond.net.au
Comments:	Thanks for your help and generousity Peter...You maintain a very fine tradition! I'm glad that these sites are available so that we won't forget. Rick

Name:	Fred Hekking
Location	Cupertino, USA
Email:	fhekking@excite.com
Comments:	It's amazing how todays culture doesn't even understand what these men went through. My grandfather, Dr. Henri Hekking, enlightened me as to what happened in the camps. Until the day that he passed, he never spoke about the Japanese with any anger or hatred. Another man who recently passed was Tom "Slug" Wright. He was another inspiration in my life. He also survived the sinking of the USS Houston. I can't thank the Vets of any era enough for giving us the freedoms we have today. More so the hatred and anger that was left on the "war fields" and not brought home. I understand that not everyone has had the same experience, I wish they had. To all the Vets who read this, THANK YOU!

Name:	Betty Miles
Location	LaConner Washington, USA
Email:	deerpond1@juno.com
Comments:	My brother was William Charles Batchelor Jr. He was on the USS Houston when it was sunk. As a Jap POW he was in many different camps but wound up in Burma on the Railroad of Death where he perished at 80 Kilo camp on Oct 1 1943. I miss him every day. Hope to hear from someone who may have known him.

Name:	Wally Gargano
Location	Perth, Australia
Email:	wgargano@bigpond.com
Comments:	Although I am a military officer of nearly 40 years, I have learned a lot in viewing this web site. Well done Peter.

Name:	Enid Johnson
Location	Bribie Island, Australia
Email:	enidy16@bigpond.net.au
Comments:	Thank you Peter for your dedication. You have covered so much. My brother (Rolly Small NX66852 2/10 Field Ambulance "F" Force- died Songkurai 28June 1943)and all those who died there are remembered in such a fine tribute.It is a great comfort that there were such wonderful doctors and mates there with them when we at home could not.

Name:	Jeff Single
Location	Orange NSW, Australia
Email:	jeff_single@hotmail.com
Comments:	The bravery,ingenuity and mateship of these soldiers can never be forgotten. As a veteran of the Vietnam (war?) it makes me very humble to see what these people have been through. We need every bit of history possible to be recorded in the hope that it may stop anything like this ever happening again. I know it is hard to speak about what has happened in a war situation, but I believe we need to see more of it. Well done on a great website.

Name:	Dick Stewart, 2/19 Battalion AIF
Location	Sydney, Australia
Email:	jste6128@bigpond.net.au
Comments:	Thanks for a very good web page. Most of my incarceration was in Japan, first at Kobe and when that city was bombed-out we were transferred to a town outside Nagasaki. We were in that city a few days after the a-bomb had been exploded and were amazed at the damage. The bomb saved us from being executed,as this was to happen when the Allies landed in Japan. Needless to relate, that proved unnecessary.

Name:	Terry Thomson
Location	erskine, western Australia 6210
Email:	terrythom@erskinegrove.com.au
Comments:	A well researched site. The stories are of human courage, whilst enduring inhuman treatment. After visiting the Canberra war memorial last year, this site has brought back some very sad memories of that period in my lifetime. I just hope none of my six young grandsons ever have to experience anything like this.

Name:	morris casey
Location	Queensland, australia
Email:	emsee5981@hotmail.com
Comments:	Im researching a gent that I worked with 40 yrs ago. He was a POW in camp#26 at Keisen Kyusu Japan. His name is/was Pte Edward Brown QX13341 Australian 8th Div Sigs. I am presently waiting for National Archives records. He gave me a wallet with Japanese invasion money & a bundle of wrappers from all the items he received from a red cross POW package.

Name:	Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Aff
Location	Canberra, Australia
Email:	minister.downer@dfat.gov.au
Website:	www.dfat.gov.au
Comments:	I would like to commend you on your well-researched and presented website, which demonstrates your commitment to preserving, for future generations, the stories of hardship and gallantry of the Australian prisoners of war captured during the Second World War. Best wishes for your ongoing efforts in collecting and documenting these important histories.

Name:	Arlene Stokes
Location	Perth, WA
Email:	Arlene.Stokes@det.wa.edu.au
Comments:	This is fantastic, brings back so many memories of a fantastic trip (Quiet Lion Tour 2000) to see what those wonderful men endured for our freedom.

Name:	Christine Richardson
Location	London, UK
Email:	christinerich@btinternet.com
Comments:	My aunt and uncle, Archie and Helen Coleman, were prisoners of the Japanese. They were taken prisoners in Hong Kong. He was Scottish and the manager of the British Ice Cold Storage Co. Helen Coleman was Canadian, Does anyone have any information about them?

Name:	Kate
Location	Brisbane, Australia
Email:	pklucas@tpg.com.au
Website:	www.angelfire.com/folk/ww1/agj.htm
Comments:	A terrific site Peter. Not enough can be said about Prisoners of War and what they went through. My father was a POW in Japan and was in the 4th Anti Tank regiment. After 60 years his photos and writings can be seen by all.

Name:	Cheryl Killen
Location	Lakewood, USA
Email:	cheryl.killen@multicare.org
Comments:	Looking for any information regarding Col. Wade Killen USA Army 102nd Inf. who was POW in Philippines then sent to Manchuria, Mukden, at least part of the time. I know he spent most of the war as POW, and was able to come home. I would love to receive any information those might have. I am married to his son, and never got the chance to meet Wade. Thank you all in advance.

Name:	John Deering
Location	Enniskillen, N.Ireland
Email:	pat.deering@btinternet.com
Comments:	I am currently collecting as much information about family members who were engaged in the Second World War and I would be most interested to learn about him. I am most grateful for the responses so far. My information todate is as follows:- ALLAN G.D.[George Douglas b.1912 Accountant. Pte 13353 FMS Armoured Cars POW George or ‘Pop’ to friends and family came from Aberdeen. He survived the experience of Changi and the Burma Thailand Railway. He married Blanche Barnett a widow, who had been a prisoner in Sumatra, some of our family remember that she marched from camp to camp and one of them may have been called ‘The Hill Station’. Her first husbands name was Edward Percy Barnett and he died on 3rd April 1942 at:- BOKIT MARAJA ESTATE PEMATANG SIANTAR SUMATRA

Name:	David Johnson
Location	Harpenden, UK
Email:	davidjohnson@dunelm.org.uk
Comments:	I read your article on Stanley Pavillard with great interest - Stanley Pavillard was our family doctor in the Canaries for many years, he was a close friend of my parents, and I am still in contact with two of his daughters. I have very fond memories of Stanley, and of long summer afternoons around their pool! Just a few points - the Pavillard family were British citizens, but originally, I believe, from Switzerland. They were part - as was my mothers family - of a large British shipping/trading community which had built up in the Canary Islands from the middle of the nineteenth century, and were connected with the Elder Dempster shipping line, which ran from the UK to West and South Africa and South America - the Canaries were an important coaling station in those days. Stanley was the youngest of seven brothers, and also had a younger sister. After the war he married an Australian, Irene, and returned to Las Palmas in the Canaries where he practised medicine for many years, latterly in partnership with his nephew. He practised with unique style - he was always transported to house calls in an immaculate chauffeur driven Rolls Royce. He retired in the early 80s, by which time his eyesights was seriously deteriorating, something which he attributed to his privations as a POW. Stanley and Irene had three daughters (Linda, Anita and Sandra), and the younger two still live in the Canaries - in fact, Anita is the UK vice-consul in Las Palmas. Irene died in the early 90s and Stanley, who was by then almost totally blind, spent his last few years at St Dunstans home for blind ex-servicemen in Brighton. He died in 1997 and his obituary was published in the British Medical Journal, No 7110, Vol 315, on 20 September 1997. Stanley had been awarded the MBE for his work as a doctor in the POW camps. Hope this is of interest.

Name:	Bill Flowers
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Email:	wflowers@bigpond.net.au
Comments:	Congratulations to Peter for his coverage of a group of Officers who were unfailing in their work and dedication to the troops.Having spent my time in Changi for the 3.5 years, I would like to see the same coverage given to those marvellous doctors who unstintingly serviced tha area. Thanks Peter.

Name:	Dawn Burr
Email:	deburr@student.ecu.edu.au
Comments:	Does anyone know where the 2/3rd machine gun battalion went to in Japan when they were working in the coal mines under the sea after they had finished the Burma railway?

Name:	kaitlin ajduk
Location	Carnamah
Email:	ajy@westnet.com.au
Comments:	I have been to Thailand with Peter and it was a great experience. I thought it was interesting and that was a fun day and we wont forget it. There were different people who went there and it was great for them too. We talked to POWs and we listened to them and we got along well.

Name:	David Cooke
Location	ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Email:	davidcooke7@optusnet.com.au
Comments:	In November 2005 I am travelling to the Burme railway with the a group and am really looking forward to the trip. Upon my return I will certainly post my opion to this website. Thank you for the oportunity of being able to attend. Regards David Cooke.

Name:	Bill Coates
Location	Canberra, Australia
Email:	coatesfour@netspeed.com.au
Comments:	Fascinating website and highly informative. As the grandson of one of the medicos in question, Sir Albert Coates, it is particular interest to me and other members of the family.

Name:	Laurie Maddison
Location	lynward66@hotmail.com
Email:	lynward66@hotmail.com
Comments:	I have been to this site many times since its inception but have somehow never got around to signing on. I know you will be getting together information on the K & L Force groups when you have the time. I do know that these were smaller groups of mainly medical personnel who were sent to Thailand to keep the coolies alive and working. My father, George Moser was a Sergeant, No 6969, in the FMSVF 3rd Field Ambulance. His Unit comprised Lt. Col GF West, CO; Major J Coutts-Milne 2 I/C; Capt. Robert Hardie MO; Captains Mackintosh, Emery, J.Mitchell, Kandiah and Abbas. Lieuts. l. Tutner, and J Daly QM died Chungkai 14th May 1944; Sgt Major A Robertson and Sergeants Dick, Dunk and Moser.I have managed to track their progress to the fall of Singapore and know that they left Changi for Kanchanburi 25th June 1943. There is unconfirmed information that he (they?) was, at some stage, with Weary Dunlop. Thereafter the trail is lost. I find this so frustrating and just about every day wish that more information would surface to help fill the gaps, although I realise that most of the men must have long been deceased. However, there must be some people, relatives maybe, who would have information which they can contribute. Peter, you are giving them a rare opportunity to tell the unknown story of these groups. I hope they find this site. Cheers and thankyou, Laurie

Name:	Elizabeth & Fred Rixon
Location	Perth, Australia
Email:	elizabethrixon@westnet.com.au
Comments:	To have travelled with John Parkes & Bill Haskell on the Remembrance Tour 2003 will remain one of the greatest priviledges of our lifes! To witness thier stories of deprivation & the grief they still bore for lost young mates,for seeing first hand the enormity of the railway construction under appalling conditions in almost impenetrable jungle. This journey was made possible by remarkable & dedicated people, including Peter Winstanley who have sought to bring recognition & to preserve for history the sufferings & the triumphs of those brave young men. We salute you & will dedicate our knowledge to our childrens children that they will never forget!

Name:	Lance Scott
Location	Perth W.A 6000, Australia
Email:	ironside@iinet.net.au
Comments:	I would be nice if other website providers, could work to your standards. Congratulations on this outstanding site

Name:	Graeme Hammond
Email:	ghammond@iinet.net.au
Comments:	Peter This is a terrific web site, well done and keep up the good work All the best Graeme

Name:	Pauline Dawson
Location	Perth, Australia
Email:	hiyah@iinet.net.au
Comments:	2nd 29th & all who did not return.lest we forget Thank you for this web.It will help to explain to my grandchildren what their Great-Granddad went through.My father was with F.Force and passed away 17 years ago,I often saw that haunted look that he could not hide.We had his ashes sent back to all his lost brothers in arms as was his last wish.I hope to take my young ones up to Hell-fire pass.Thank you again.

Name:	Warren Glenny President DRA
Location	CASTLE HILL, NSW
Email:	warrenglenny@bigpond.com
Comments:	Peter, Congratulations on the site and for keeping us aware of this dark period. We should never forget the sacrifices of our POWs

Name:	Dana West
Location	Hoffman, Illinois, usa
Email:	vlwest@frontiernet.net
Comments:	My Great-Uncle, Melvin Malandht was an enlisted crew member on the USS Houston when it was torpedoed during the Battle of the Java Sea. He was taken POW for the duration of the war. I want to find more info about the POW camp he was in and if there are any other survivors still living that may have known Mel. Thanks, Dana West US NAVY Vet

Name:	Bert Lane
Location	Perth, Western Australia
Email:	bertlane@iinet.net.au
Comments:	Well done Peter. With people like you doing what you do - these stories will never erode. Nor should they. Lest we forget

Name:	Colonel David Dufall (Rtd)
Location	Bangkok, Thailand
Email:	davedufa@lox1.loxinfo.co.th
Comments:	I have been associated in some way or another with the Thai-Burmna Railway and the POWs who toiled on the line since 1979 but more closely since 1990, then as the Australian Defence Attache to Thailand. Peter Winstanleys outstanding efforts in researching the medical aspects of those dreadful years has revealed details of the history of the line which all can follow in a user-friendly style. There can never be enough research of this nature.

Name:	Mr.Beale
Location	NSW, Australia
Email:	emailstuff2000@yahoo.com.au
Comments:	I am seeking photos, stories or general knowledge of the Naoetsu POW camp 4B Japan, where my Granfather (Fred Beale)and his brother (George Beale)were imprisoned after the fall of singapore. Two Aboriginal Brothers from Gunnedah in NSW. George died in the camp and sadly Fred passed in 1992 after long battles with war related illnesses. I also have pics some of the camp and the men. If interested please contact me.

Name:	Douglas F Smith
Location	northam, australia
Email:	superscot22@hotmail.com
Comments:	i remember helping to carry the AATTV banner in 2000 when we marched through fremantle to the museum.....it was a great plessure and we won too...