Guestbook

Chris Cole

Cambridgeshire

Thanks Mike that's helped me a lot. Now I have his id number I can search abit more.

Richard Moffat

Canada

My Dad George Moffat was prisoner with the Japs he was Gordon Highlanders 2 Battilion

Jonathan Moffatt

UK

Hi, Susan
His Liberation Questionnaire gives: Roberts Hospital 10.3.42. Selarang Hospital 27.8.1943. Kranji Hospital 28.5.1944. He gives his senior officer at Roberts Hospital as Colonel Craven who was previously SBO at Alexandra Military Hospital, Singapore and his SBO at Selarang and Kranji as Lt Colonel Collins. Roberts and Selarang Hospitals were barrack blocks within what we know as Changi POW camp.

Susan Allen

NSW Australia

Thank you Mike, every little bit helps and I am so grateful for your help. Best Wishes Sue

Mike

28.06.2016 UK

Hi Susan.

Susan Allen

NSW Australia

I have records details fo a John Alfred OXLEY, Medical Personel, captured 15/2/1942, Liberated 02/09/1945, Rank: Private, POW Camp Malaya. Service Number 7374032. What other information, may I be able to obtain, and would applying for his UK service records give more insight into his time in Changi ? Many thanks Sue

Mike

26.06.2016 UK

Hi Chris.

Alison Campbell

Edinburgh

Hi, I would love to hear any information on my dad Alexander Russell Sowersby. He was in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Scots.
Service number 3054862. I know he was held in Tokyo from December 1941 to September 1944.
Any other information would be welcome. Thanks in advance Alison

Chris Cole

Cambridgeshire

Hi was hoping you can give me some information
about my grandad.

Bill Mason

Edinburgh, Scotland

Mike - my earnest gratitude to you for such a complete and speedy reply. This man went on to serve for 25 years in the RAF and become the father of a school friend of mine. He did not have a great life and had many mental demons that led to him abusing alcohol. For many, their experiences were too much I think. Thank you sincerely!!!

Mike

Bill, date should be 08/03/1942

Mike

26.06.2016 UK

Hi Bill,

Bill Mason

Edinburgh, Scotland

I would be grateful for any help regarding an RAF POW captured at Singapore. He is William (Graham Michael0 Clark, who may have been known as Bill or Knobby. DOB 20. 04. 1922. He was a wireless Operator and apparently "worked on railway lines". He survived and was repatriated after a period of RR via Australia to the UK. He did not talk of locations or experiences and is now dead. Thank you all - please feel free to contact me on the given email.

Laura

Manchester

P.s. Worked out the last camp was Pratchi - was just that his R looked like an A. Thanks again.

Laura

Manchester

Mike - you left information about my Grandad, Stanley Harry Harris a long time ago and I have only just realised. Thankyou so much for this. Information we never had, as he didn't speak about it.

Judy Barradell-Smith

Oxfordshire

My grandfather Harold James PAGE was a civilian internee. He evacuated from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore arriving there on 13th January 1942.His wife Gladys escaped on board the Empress of Japan on 31st January 1942 whilst Harold remained behind. He got away on February 13th on board The Tien Kwang.His boat was
bombed by the Japanese off Pom Pom ( or Pong Pom) island the next day. Harold PAGE and a few others swam to the island. They were taken off by friendly boats and made their way from Pekanbaru in east Sumatra to Padang in west Sumatra. Some of them got away but Harold did not. He was interned first in Padang and then moved in October 1943 to the
men's camp at Bankinang where he remained until being liberated in 1945. I have a picture of him on release weighing less than 6 stone in weight. I would LOVE to make contact with anyone who had a relative in either of those camps or who might have been on board the Tien Kwang

Roland Torrens

Canberra

I wrote some years ago regarding Brig DS Maxwell's
Diaries - I see that they are not referenced which
is a shame as the contain interesting comment
on his time in Mugden/Hoten towards the end
of WWI. I I have a transcript and understand
that the original is in the Army Museum Victoria
Barracks in Paddington NSW . They were
donated by his niece, Mrs Jean Cowper, after
his death.
I am still trying to locate three missing diaries
covering his time in transit from Ghangi and time
spent in Formosa

Patricia Spencer

South Australia

My mother's uncle, Albert Lawson was prisoner of war in Singapore 1942-45. He was one of the lucky ones that came back from that hellhole. Im trying to trace him on Ancestry.com as he was one of 13 Lawson children. My grandmother Jesse Lawson was a younger sister.

Katherine Forrestall

Middleton, NS, Canada

Looking for information in my mother's cousin, Douglas Thomas. He was possibly Brigadier.B on in England or perhaps The Isle Of Man., British Army, prisoner in Hong Kong, WW 11

Alison Young

Canada

I am looking for any information you may have about my Grandfather John Dunlop Petrie. He was on leave in Australia when Singapore was invaded and returned to fight . He was a member of the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force . I have his date of capture as Feb 15th 1942 but I am not sure how he arrived in Singapore.

Mike

UK 27.05.2016

Hi Eleanor.

Eleanor McCutcheon

Dalmellington, Ayrshire, Scotland

Hi, I'm looking for information on my uncle Andrew Kirkland who dies as POW in Japan WWII.

Al Wiemans

USA

Looking for information on my father Paul Willem Wiemans.

Kimberly

USA

My grandfather Robert Green was a POW in Burma during WWII. He told his family what happened there ONE time, and then never spoke of it again. Hell of a determined man. I wish I had known him better.

Maureen Hanley

Australia

Please supply information on my Uncle Wallace Anthony Shaw, a P.O.W. under the Japs on the Burma Railway WW2. He died at 21. Any information will be appreciated abundantly. For myself and my family. He was my beloved dad's only brother. A hero. I march in his honour each year in our ANZAC Day March. Thank you. Kind regards. Maureen Hanley.