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Marty

Perth WA - 06/02/2019

Hi Joanne, 5955696 Pte Thomas Worthy was B Company with the 5th Beds and Herts, Fought in Singapore in reserve of A Company at Hill 125 (Rochester Park) and eventually withdrew to Hock San Brick Works. After Changi, he was sent to Thailand to work on the Thailand to Burma with Letter party 'Q', 01/11/1942. He worked in the area of Tha Sao, was at Tha Muang camp and then worked on the Wang Pho to Tavoy Rd, finished at Nakhom Pathon. Can email you some documents if you wish. Martyn.

Joanne burke

United Kingdom

Hi. I am looking for information on my grandad Thomas William Worthy
Service number5955696 prisoner of war in the thialand 4Dcamp I believe on 06/11/1942
Any information would be greatly appreciated.thankyou

Dorothy Key

Cyprus

Looking for information about Ernest Bedworth

Mike

Sandy, British, Australian, American, other ??

Sandy

Dayton

Hi I was hoping to get information on grandfather he was s POW. His name is James Woodrow Welsh. I believe it was during 40s thank you

francesca owens

Italy

Nicolaas Wouters, survived being a prisoner of war.
Don, Hans, Harry and Pete Wouters, were his sons who served in the war. Harry Wouters was killed. Olga, Eveline, Willy, Loeke and Charles were the younger siblings imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in Ceylon. I have written and illustrated a baby picture book about their story. I could use any details you could find on any of my family members. Thank you, Francesca

James

Uk

I don't know much about where he lived but I do have other records of relatives from Carlisle. I have added my email so look forward to receiving the info.
https://www.horizonfostering.co.uk/

Lou

UK

Hi Mike
Thanks so much for this! He did write his memoirs but I have been unable to locate them.

My great aunty remembers him coming home in a very poor condition and said there was a photo taken but I have yet to see that.

Thank you for your help!

Mike

UK 04.01.2019

Aircraftsman Robert Henry Sowerby. Service number 623134. RAF 151 Maintenance Unit. Home address shown as West Park, Crofton, Thursby, Carlisle. Taken prisoner on JAVA 08.03.1942. Taken to Haroekoe, Moluccas, in the Spice Islands where he was probably enslaved in building an airfield which was intended to be used in the invasion of Australia. Returned to Batavia, Java in October 1944. Shipped to Singapore on 08.01.1945 arriving on 11.01.1945, as part of Java Party 25. Taken to River Valley Camp on Singapore. He was liberated from Changi Camp, Singapore on 05.09.1945. All this documentation shows he never went to the Burma Siam Railroad, so definitely never saw the Bridge over the River Kwai. (will email some documents)

Lou

UK

Hi Mike.

That sounds like it could be him. I don't know much about where he lived but I do have other records of relatives from Carlisle.

I have added my email so look forward to receiving the info - thank you so much!

Mike

UK 03.01.2019

Hi Lou, I have information on Robert Sowerby of Crofton, Thursby, Carlisle. Can you confirm this is him, and if you add email there will be many original documents that could be sent to you.

Lou

UK

Hi all.
I am interested in finding out more about my great uncle, who was a pow who helped build the bridge over the river Kwai.

His name was Robert Henry Sowerby from Cumbria.

Any information that anyone has would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks!

Mike

UK 23.12.2018

Hi Andrew, After departing Manila, he arrived in San Francisco on 03.11.1945.

Andrew Whelam

Sunderland

Hi my grandad Edward Whelam was a POW in Japan

rose b

UK

Hello, can anyone help and advise me how to get more

Information

on my grandfather's



Service in WW2. He was in Burma on the Railway.















He is William Thomas Griffiths, DOB 20/05/1901.
and lived in Treharris before the War.

Robyn Pearson

Adelaide

2/10 Field Ambulance POWs please

Ramon Santos

Sarasota Florida

I am looking for USA Engineer by the name of Koster imprisoned in University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines during the 2nd world war and was freed by the return of American at the end of 2nd WW went back to USA may be in California

Jonathan Moffatt

uk

Hello, Peter. Your enquiry about Frederick Arthur Hamilton 9.2.1895-29.9.1969. A Straits Settlements and Johore prison officer. He was a Pte in the 1st Battalion [Singapore], Straits Settlements Volunteer Corps. I have two versions of his service number: 764 and 6074.He was on the notorious H Force to Thailand 13.5.1943 but survived and post war returned to Singapore in 1946. After a few years to Leederville, Western Australia. His wife Violet Annie was evacuated to South Africa then the UK. A point of interest is his age. Volunteer Force service was supposed to have an age limit of 40. Most Prison Wardens in Malaya came from the military, particularly Army and Royal Marines. Frederick was likely a WW1 veteran.

Derick Smith

Wakefield west yorks

Hi, My great uncle John edgar smith from Bearpark Durham was a prisoner of war in Burma 1940-1945, when he got back home he went back to the mines and was killed by runaway tubs 1947 Langley Park colliery Durham, I have tried to find his war details to no avail could you please help me.Mr D. Smith

Peter

Coulsdon, Surrey

Trying to find information about Frederick Arthur Hamilton prison officer at Changi Jail and then POW

Duncan

Edinburgh

Trying to find more information on Thomas Cunningham of the Royal Scots, who we believe was in Changi prison during ww2. His brother, my grandfather was in Kanchanburi camp.

Gail Wright

Western Australia

My mothers firstg husband, Keith Greaves, was a POW in Changi and then on the Burma Railway. He was on the Rokuyu Maru when it was bombed and did not survive. Thank you for such a detailed and informative website.

Kevin Khan

Melbourne

My Grandfather was Reginald Cyril Leahy and was a Sergeant with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was caught in the fall of Singapore and was a POW at Changi Prison. Service number 7535127. Thank you for recording this information. Unfortunately Reg has passed and never got to reunite with any of the Australian POW's from Changi.

Judy

Yorkshire

Hi Mike, Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. just wanted to say thankyou so much for the information regarding my father Maurice Bennett, though just a small snippet of information to myself and my siblings it means an awful lot and helps us to understand his journey through the war. Thankyou once again.

Judy

Australia

Looking for info on Ernest frederick Sharp
Service no NX71552 ambulance convey
Driver held Thailand RTA by Japanese