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Mike

UK 06.05.2018

Hi Richard. Go to this site where all the research work has already been carried out for you. http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/atrocities/sandakan/K/html/ke_database_2.htm

richard smith

essex

hello i am researching my mums mum brother ,
l.a.c frederick william kearney , royal air force
service no 1195700 ,
named at kranji memorial www.cwgc.org
would like to confirm if he was in sankin and any details
many thanks and we would like to make a trip out there
thank you

Woodcarver

uk

thanks Jonathan, its greatly appreciated

Jonathan

United Kingdom

Hi, Woodcarver, he's on a 2008 Electoral Register on Find my Past except I don't have membership to get precise address.Also John G. Bowen more recently on 192.com.

Woodcarver

UK

Thanks Jonathan, it could well a son, i'll get searching. Was that on an electoral roll?

Jonathan

uk

Reply to Woodcarver: he was from Wednesbury - wartime address: 61 Basset Rd, Friar Park Estate, Wednesbury. A John Bowen still lives in Wednesbury - son?

Woodcarver

Uk

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Ian Ramsay

Sydney

I am trying to locate any relatives of RAMSAY, Private, SYDNEY, 13659. 1st (Perak) Bn. Federated Malay States Volunteer Force. 22nd August 1943. buried at Thanbyuzayat war cemetery, Burma. I would like to have contact. Many thanks.

Mike

UK 19.04.2018

Anne, the only items i can see for him are his Liberation Questionnaire and his Japanese Index card. Have you already got these?

Anne Williamson

Australia

I am seeking information on my uncle Robert Charles Blackadder, Able Seaman

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Tona Johnson

Bullsbrook

My Grandfather, Jim Sanderson, was captured 3 times by japs, can anyone tell me anything about him.

Caroline Foster

York, England

While discussing my family tree at work one of the ladies that I work with mentioned that her uncle was also a prisoner of the Japanese: Thomas Alfred Frank service number 1591001. He was a gunner in the Royal Artillery who ended up in Shimonoseki Quarantine Station after being transported to Japan on the Singapore Maru in October 1942. I was wondering if you knew anything else about him as he never spoke of his experiences. Thank you, Caroline

Deb Jennings

Boonah, Qld, Australia

Have you any knowledge of Captain C.O. Jennings (nickname 'Mick'). My Father was in Sungei Ron camp in Sumatra following his attempted escape to Australia in a small boat (he wrote An Ocean Without Shores, published in 1951) He wrote a sequel, but due to concerns by the publisher that some of the material my Dad wrote about in this sequel about his treatment by fellow patients in the hospital in Bencoolen where he was first taken, they didn't want to publish. My sister and I are rewriting the sequel and combining it with his published book, as well as putting in extracts from his first wife - Margery Jennings, who died a couple of months before the end of the war - also in a POW camp in Sumatra. Any further information about the camp, or anyone who might have known my dad, or Margery would be greatly appreciated.

Mike

Caroline. Gunner G H Bullough, 77 Heavy Anti Aircraft, 239 Battery. He was actually sent to Changi on 13.02.1943 where he remained for nearly 3 months before being sent to the Burma Siam Railroad on 05.05.1943. His destination was Hintock at 155 Km. In December 1943 he was returned to Sime Road, Singapore and in May 1944 sent into Changi. It was here he was liberated from at war end.

Caroline Foster

York, England

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your help and your time. I can't believe the coincidence. My Great Uncle George Harry Bullough was a gunner in the Royal Artillery, service number 1794665. He was captured at Java Indonesia on 8th March 1942. He was transferred to Changi on 15th August 1942. I don't know when he was released, but I do know he made it home. Thanks again.

Mike

UK 01.04.2018

Caroline. Pte. Jack Patterson, 5th Norfolks, of Wellington Road, Litcham, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Imprisoned Changi, Singapore 15.02.1942 until 19.03.1943 when sent to the Burma/Siam Railroad on train 5. Died less than 3 months later at Takanoon Camp ( also called Tha Khanum & Takanum) which is 220Km from Nong Pladuk. Cause of death : Cholera. Original grave number 51 at Takanoon, before being reburied in 1946 at the Commonwealth War Graves.

Caroline Foster

York, England

I have recently started to research my partner's family tree and have just come across a reference to a Jack Patterson service number 5775503. He was a private in the 5th Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment. He died on 14th June 1943 and is buried in Kanchanaburi war cemetery. I believe he is my partner's great uncle. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, very much, Caroline.

Alison Hirsch

Pennsylvania, US

I'm writing on behalf of my friend Paul Robinson, whose two uncles reportedly died at Changi prison in Singapore. Their last name was Thompson, but he doesn't know their first names. Their sister was his mother, Pamela Mabel Thompson Robinson. How can we learn more about them in order to honor their memories?

Charlotte

London, UK

Very many thanks Mike

Dan Burton

Nwales.UK

Returned P.O.W from 4 camp Tamuang (Tamuan) How worked on the to build the Burma-Thailand railway Retuned- Home 15th Nov 1945 age: 31 when Enlisted the man my Grandad Richard Podmore bless him an all how have been taken
#Rank
G.N.R 13 SEARCHLIGHT REGIMENT 5th ROYAL ARTILLERY (HONOUR)
Was prisoner of war

Mike

25.03.2018

Charlotte. Full line entry reads: British Death 98. Prisoner 11711. Williams-Wynn Albert Edward. 19.07.1945. Malaria and malnutrition. PALEMBANG.

Charlotte

London, UK

Mike, do you have any idea which camp my grandfather might have ended up in? Thanks

Tom

Glasgow (UK)

By way of introduction, my Father served on HMS "Exeter" fighting in the Battles of the Java Sea in February & March 1942 alongside the HMASs "Hobart" & "Perth", he survived the subsequent internment and was one of the 450-odd survivors transported from Macassar via Fremantle back to the UK on HMS "Maidstone".

I am trying to research into the actual numbers of RN PoWs landed at Fremantle, those hospitalised at Hollywood, and those re-embarked on board HMS "Maidstone" when she sailed.




mOf course, HMAS "Leeuwin" became an Army establishment, so presumably the Army adopted the custody of the records.




AAny additional bits of information would be most welcome as the lads always spoke well of their time in Fremantle, together with the hospitality offered by the local people taking them into their homes; we seem to have hit a brick-wall with our efforts to see what happened to our fathers and grandfathers, maybe even to renew friendships made

Charlotte

London

Wow, thank you so much, and for the link you emailed. This has filled in a huge gap in the information I had. I am extremely grateful to you. Would love to hear from any other relations of signallers with the 48th LAA. Thanks again