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Emily Wood

Darwen, Lancashire

I have recently found out (although I've not many family members left to get more detail from, that my grandad's brother (Christopher Frank Gandy) was a Japanese POW. From what I have been told, he served in the Royal Artillery (it will have been an Essex regiment, as that is where my family are from). He was gassed as a POW, but managed to survive & live until 1987.

Rhonda O'Donnell

Melbourne, Australia

My grandfather was a British POW prisoner captured by the Japanese in WW2. If anyone knew of him could they please get in touch with me. He was Lance Corporal Horace Frederick Mann with the Royal Norfolk Regiment, 4th Battalon. Captured on 15-2-1942 and died on 2-8-1943 at 'H Force' Camp 3. was overland to railway with 'H Force' 4-5-1943.

Rhonda O'Donnell

Melbourne, Australia

My grandfather was a British POW prisoner captured by the Japanese in WW2. If anyone knew of him could they please get in touch with me. He was Lance Corporal Horace Frederick Mann with the Royal Norfolk Regiment, 4th Battalon.

Mike

08.08.2016 UK

Hi Maureen.

Maureen

Dorset

See my previous comment
Re: H W Usher
1 forgot to add my email -

Maureen

Dorset

I am looking for more information about my uncle Bill.
Full name Herbert William Usher, service number 1759182.
I am interested in his time as a POW. Captured 1942 (Java)
Liberated 1945 (Japan)

Mike

05.08.2016

Hi David.

David Cullen

Dublin, Ireland

Hi, I am looking for any addition information if you
have it regarding my Great Uncle.
Sergeant Dermot Cullen. Service No: T 56154.
Royal Army Service Corps ? - Not 100% on that.
Particularly like to know the various camps he may have transitioned through.
The only one I could find was "4D Thailand"
I believe he was likely interned in the immediate
aftermath of the fall of Singapore.
He survived his ordeal and lived a long life.
The family has many sketches produced and saved by him during his captivity
with some names detailed that we know nothing about.
Many thanks.

Lyn Collingborn

South Wales UK

looking for info on Sidney Betenson B 3rd July 1915 D,6th Nov 1999.
Went down on the HMS Exeter,she was sunk on 1st March 1942,
. Seven hundred and fourteen men of HMS Exeter were taken as POWs by the Japanese to a camp at Macassar after the sinking
I have a few photos but very little info
Thanks for any help
Lyn

Mike

01.08.2016 UK

Hi Jean,

Jean Lee

Waled

I am looking for infotmation about my father bombadier
John Henry Hanson 880016.He wasa Japanese prisoner
of war in Malaya.And like most of his generation didnt
speak much of his experiance but the things he did tell
were of great friendships.My father always said without
the Guerkas he would not made it home.

Eugenia Bemis

Chepachet RI

Hi ,I'm looking for any information contained to my father.Edgar Eugene Griffith .
The most I know is he was a cook on a ship . Please help me fine out more about
This time in his life .. I need to know,the why it was so messed up .
Him and my mother couldn't get it together . I just loved my daddy such
.

Mike

25.07.2016 UK

Hi Jake,

Gordon Robbins

Devon

Takanoon


(** Can Mike 11/7/2016 entry) please email me - details in our entry .. Gt Unlce buried in Takanoon , however we have little info. to add. Thanks

Jake Minns

Fakenham Norfolk

Hi Im looking for more information on my great grandfather Sidney Arthur Hooks who was 5th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment All we know was he was in Burma he never spoke of his time there any information would be amazing. Casualty List No.1051. Previously shown on Casualty List No.972 as Missing believed Wounded, 15/02/1942. Service Number: 5773020 Thanks Jake

Dr Nick Sutcliffe

England

My Grandfather, Harry Foster, was a manager on the Malaysian Railways and was interned in Sime Road and Changai POW camps I believe. He does Get a mention in John Haytor's 1991 book Priest in Prison : Four Years of Life in Japanese occupied Singapore (Tyrun Press, Lutterworth UK) ISBN 1-85646-051-7.
He's on p.218. I did hear from members of my family that he was on the footplate of the last train to cross the causeway when the Japanese invaded in 1942 but I don't know if this is a family myth or not. The rest of his familly, including my mother were evacuated from Malaya on the Empress of Japan and he was left behind.
I never met him as he died of lung cancer six months before I was born.

If anyone elses relatives also worked on the railways in Malaya at that time, I'd be interested to hear from them.

Jim Caldwell

San Diego, Ca. USA

Any information on Martin Palos. US serviceman served during the Burma Road campaign. Captured, POW and escaped

Tracy Bradbury

Thank you so much Mike for the info about my great uncle.

Mike

11.07.2016 UK

Hi Tracy.

Linda

Sutton Surrey

I would like to find out more about my grandad Samuel William Short who died in Nong Pladuk POW camp and subsequently reburied in Kanchanaburi cemetery.

Tracy Bradbury

Ely

Please can you tell me any information about my great uncle.

Mike

10.07.2016 UK

Hi Karen.

Karen

Essex, uk

My grandfather George Henry scopes was a prisoner of war on the railway, all I know is he was in the death tent the day they were rescued, he never spoke of his experiences, but I would like to find out more of a man I have the upmost respect for

Mike

07.07.2016 UK

Hi Owain,

Owain Clarke

Newport, Wales

Hi Mike, I think its great how you are helping so many people gain such valuable information. Could you see if you have any records of my late Grandfather, who rarely spoke of his experiences in war. I know he spent time in hospital, His name is William James Clarke, from newport South wales. DOB 21.05.1920...thanks