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GLENDA GODFREY..
Hello ,
Thank you Glenda that is very kind of you and very much appreciated.
Regards David

David. His liberation questionnaire is here

Hello Mike,
Looking for help with 5778056 William john Butters Norfolk regiment I believe captured late 1942,any help would be most appreciated.
Regards David

Hi, I'm looking for information on my uncle Gordon Villiers Cole. He was originally listed as missing on 9/3/1942 casualty list #766 but he was captured on 15/2/1942. He was in the R.A.M.C. and part of the No. 17 Combined General Hospital. His record says he was a POW in Malai and also Thailand but that's all I have apart from his service number 7261083. He was liberated on 30/08/1945 so I'd appreciate any tips on where to look next. Thank you
Rhoma

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My grandfather was a Japanese POW on the railway.
Does anyone know anything about the M.T. or motor transport unit at Tar sao
and Kanchanaburi?
what would he have done if he was in motor transport?
Drive lorries, fix trucks? Ferry supplies up country?

Many thanks - trying to figure out what he did.

I am trying to research my uncle John Brennand 641337 RAF 153 MU.
Escaped Singapore to Java where he was captured. Held a Tasikmalaja 8.3.42. then Malang Java 02.04.42 to 14.04.42 then Haruku / Harokoe 18.05.43 to 22-06.43.

John survived the war but we would like to know more - especially why he appears to have been removed from Haruku 22.06.43 which seems strange.

Kate, although this website does not have a search option, you will probably find your web browser does have one you can use. Whether you are using Microsoft

Please is it possible to search your wonderful

Hi Kathleen. Re Michael Yarina. Your request is way outside my area of knowledge, when I saw it was Wake Island, and became even more so when I realised he was a civilian and not a military man who would have a service number to follow. However, his name crops up with searches, and just in case you have not been able to do similar searching, I will detail what I found. Listed as coming from Cleveland, Ohio, date of birth 15th May 1921, and taken prisoner at the fall of Wake Island on 23rd December 1941. Sent on Japanese Hellship Nitta Maru on 12th January 1942 to Yokohama , and then onward on 20th January to Woosung Camp, Shanghai in China. In December 1942 all the men at this camp were moved to Kiangwan Camp, Shanghai. I don

Hi John. Re Sgt Paul Whiteland. Unfortunately I have not been able to access his Liberation Questionnaire, which would have listed his camps in his own handwriting. However, I have found him in a few files which gives the following information. Home address shown as Webster Street, Bungay , Suffolk. Sergeant in the 4th Btl. Royal Norfolk Regiment. Imprisoned Changi 15.02.1942 until 21.10.1942, when he was sent to the railroad. Listed as Group 4 which was the camps between Wampo and Kinsayok, but another file shows he was later transferred to Group 2 which means he was at the camps between Chungkai at 57km and Arrow Hill at 108km. His Liberation Q may be at the National Archives at Kew if he completed one.

When kindly replying to my query regarding Malai 4 POW camp, Mike invited me to submit the name of the soldier concerned. This was 5775665 Sergeant Paul Whiteland.

Mike very much appreciate the work you have done, re:
Sgt Felix Shaw. Thank you.

Hi Cefyn. Gwyn requested the same information nearly 3 years ago. I will just copy & paste what I found on 05.02.2017. . Hi Gwyn. Gunner William Burgess of the 49th Battery, 48 Light Anti Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery. Address shown as Braich Tregarth, Bangor, North Wales. His Japanese Index Card shows a capture date of 20.03.1942 (which seems unlikely), whereas his own handwritten Liberation Questionnaire shows the date of 08.03.1942. His own date seems much more likely as this was the date of the surrender of Java. He lists his POW camps as Glodok, then Saint Vincentius Hospital,(1942) then Mater Dolorosa Hospital (1944) before ending up at Cycle Camp in 1945. He therefore spent all his imprisonment on Java, and probably about 2 years in hospital, but I have been unable to find what he was suffering from..

John Knights, there was no Malai 4 camp. There was a

Steven, re Sgt. Felix Shaw. Line of Command Provost Company, service number 3527591. He did complete a Liberation Questionnaire listing his numerous camps, but his handwriting makes it very difficult to read. What I can establish is that he was imprisoned Changi until 28/11/1942 when he entrained with

Would like information on Michael Yarina who was a POW. Captured on Wake Island and in Japanese prison camp for 4 years.

looking for onformation on my fatheres experience and locations. Willam Royden Burgess 1796042. prisoner at jave. belive he was captured in Burma.

Might you be able to please tell me the location of camp Malai 4 where my relative was held?

Hi looking for details of my father Sgt Felix Shaw Military Police
Captured in Singapore 1942 came home 1945, Died 1995. Interested in his camps and such like, would greatly appreciate a photo.

Hi

Hi Kelly. Gunner Arthur Dyer, Service No. 1078109, 215 Battery, 80th Anti Tank Regiment. Address given as Boundary Cottage, Rustington, Sussex and father living at North Lane, Rustington.
His battery was at Alloa on 29th August 1941, when then entrained for Gourock on the Clyde. Here they met up with the other 3 batteries of 80th A/T and also the Signals Section and the L.A.D. Section (Light Aid Detachment RAOC). At 2pm they embarked on RMT Scythia, but did not sail until 31st August 1941, as part of a convoy of 19 ships, and was known as the WS11 Convoy. The convoy sailed north west towards Nova Scotia, for more than 1,000 miles, before turning south, and then finally turning east, to avoid German U-Boats.
The convoy initially arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone on 13th September 1941.
The convoy then departed on 18th September and arrived in Durban on 3rd October.
At Durban the regiment was transferred to 2 smaller ships, with the 215 and the 2 Minden battery embarking on the HMT New Zeeland, and the 272 and 273 battery on the Ss Johan de Witt which sailed on 7th October, and arrived in Bombay on 22nd October. A depleted convoy of 6 ships left Bombay on 27th October, calling into Colombo, Sri Lanka on 31st October, and sailed onto Singapore, arriving 6th November 1941). Upon arrival the regiment was split up with each of the 4 batteries being sent to different locations in Malaya. The next time the men met up was as prisoners in Changi on 15/02/1942. Arthur was sent to the Siam Railroad on 20/06/1942 in one of the first parties to construct the camp for those who followed. In September 42 he was sent to Tamarkan to work on the bridges on the Kwai. This was followed by camps at Konkoita and Hindato before finally being sent 600Km northeast to Ubon to work on the airfield construction. He was liberated from this camp.

Sgt Wiliam Arthur Nicoll was serving in the
Shanghai Municipal Police from 1934 to 1945
when he was repatriated to UK on the SS Tamaroa.
Is it possible to find out in which camp he was
interned in Shanghai ?
I believe Wiliam was spelt with one l.

Alan, sorry, in post below each time I put Barnvard it should read Barneveld

Alan, I checked the UK pow listing , then the Royal Artillery listings, and there is no George Barneveld. I did however find a Sgt. G H Barneveld who was listed in Java and then sent to Changi in Java Party 24 on the Kinta Maru. The problem is that this Sgt G H Barnevard is a Dutchman born in 1902 and his name is Sgt. Gerrit Hendrik Barnevard. If you would like his documents sent , to eliminate him from your searches, just let me know and I will email them.