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Rebecca

UK

25.03.2019
Comments: Rebecca. Can you confirm I have the correct John Simm. Did he die in Kuching in April 1944 ?

Yes. That's right. He died in the camp. I managed to piece some information together from postcards of his communications to his mother that never made it home but are on stamp & memorabilia auction sites. Heartbreaking to read. Any information you have would be great to know so that we can keep his memory alive for my children.

Mike

23.01.2020

Re Private John Dean, address shown as Colne, Lancashire. Imprisoned Changi but involved outside in Work Parties. One year later sent to the Burma Railroad on 20.03.1943 in the dreaded

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Guildford

Looking for any information on John Dean No. 5826379. Captured Singapore 15 Feb 1942. Was with 4th Suffolks in 18th Division.
Very grateful for any suggestions.

Glenda Godfrey

Glos

David
This web site will give you so much Information.
http://www.powtaiwan.org/index.php

David

UK

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

Glenda Godfrey

Glos.

David. His liberation questionnaire is here

David

UK

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

Rhoma Kelly

Coffs Harbour Australia

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

Glenda Godfrey

Gloucestershire

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margaret

warrington

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.

Stephen Lennie

Huddersfield

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.

Mike

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

Kate

Uk

Please is it possible to search your wonderful

Mike

UK 06.01.2020

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

Mike

UK 05.01.2020

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.

john knights

Norwich England

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.

steve shaw

england

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

Mike

UK 01.01.2020

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..

Mike

UK 01.01.2020

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

Mike

UK 01.01.2020

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

Kathleen Poticny

Cleveland Ohio

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

cefyn burgess

wales

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

john knights

Norwich England

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

Steven Shaw

England

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.

Adam Mason

London

Hi