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Jane-Marie Smith

Southampton

My uncle was a prisoner during this period, his name is

Mike

UK 18.08.2015

Hi Lewis (re George Lambert) Address shown as Staffurths Bridge, March. Cambridgeshire. Your grandfather was with the 197th Field Ambulance RAMC. Sent to the railroad on 25.06.1943 as part of 'K Force'. This was a special medical party of 230 made up of 163 UK, 55 Australians, 11 Dutch & 1 other, under the command of Major E E D Crawford. Upon arrival at Kanchanburi they found they were to be medics for the coolie workforce who had been attacked by cholera. I have no details of his camps, but unlike many he was NOT back in Changi at the end of the war.

Janet

Uk

I wild just like to thank Mike for his help regarding information

Mike

UK 18.08.2015

Emma (re John Trevor Haydon). If you copy/paste this link, you will see your fathers Liberation Questionaire, where he states which camps he was in. http://www.cofepow.org.uk/lq.images/Hartigan%20-%20Hazzard/Haydon,%20John%20Trevor.jpg

Mike

18.08.2015

Hi Yvonne, ( re Bobby and Sandy Robertson). Robert Robinson, service number 2879183, address shown as 3, Glebe Street, Dundee. 2nd Gordon Regiment.
Taken prisoner Singapore, kept in Changi until 28.03.1943. Sent overseas on hellship

Keith Hughes

Germany

Thank you for the information on my Father (Leslie Hughes).You mentioned the prison camp Fukuoka25 Omuta Camp. Where can I find more information on Fukuoka25?

Alana

Nowra

I would just like to pay tribute and more to keep there memory everlasting!

Mike

UK 17.08.2015

Hi Keith, (re Leslie Thomas Hughes). 118th Field Regiment Royal Artillery. Address shown as 11, Spencer Gardens, Well Hall Rd, Eltham, London.
Sailed from the Clyde on Duchess of Atholl for Halifax. Transferred to the USS Mount Vernon. Arrived Singapore 13.01.1942. After the surrender of Singapore on 15.02.1942 he remained in Changi until 20.03.1943 when he was then sent in train 6 to Siam railway. Date unknown he returned to Singapore to River Valley Camp. On 4.09.1944 he boarded one of the hellships, either Kachidoki Maru or Rakuyo Maru which left in convoy for Japan. Both these ships were sunk by the US navy submarines, USS Pampanito and USS Sealion 11. 289 rescued men were taken to Japan where they were sent to Fukuoka25 Omuta Camp, where they worked in a carbide plant.

Janet

Uk

Hi, I have more information about my grandfather private George William Elmer . Who was in the 4the royal Norfolk fussillers. He was in the military police in srilsnka. The pow in chiangi prison and camps from the fall of Singapore, he spoke very little of his 3

Margaret Cox

UK

Looking for info on my dad, jAMES/Jimmy Clement who served with the 2nd Argylles as a piper. I know he was in Pudu and then Changi and think he was HQ Coy. He put up the telegraph(?) poles on the Burma Railway. He was blind on his return and was in hospital a long while on his return to be treated with vitamins and I don't know what else. My mother (ATS -ACK ACK) is still alive and she always wanted to know what his last camp was called. A week before he died he spoke to my mother about some things, she wrote down some keywords. Malay to Bang Pong 3.6 (I think he said it was a song). Deep sleep, Malayan village woke up, bayonets....Sunshine Russel? Drummer Ramsay died. Sgt McPhee, 2 brothers, Peter McPhee/boxer killed. Some of these people/words may mean something to someone. Thanks. Sammy pioneers platoon

Tina ryall

Caerphilly South wales

Hi. I am looking for any info on my dad,Bernard james Jones

Jonathan Moffatt

Coventry UK

Nicola, I was very interested to see that your relative was aboard Vyner Brooke and a Muntok then Palembang POW.

Nicola Booker

Birmingham

I am trying to locate any information I can on my husbands Grandfather James Dennis Welch Royal Navy who was a prisoner of war in Japan at the fall
of Singapore.

Lewis Lambert

Wisbech, Cambs

Hello,

I've been trying to find information on my grandfather George Lambert (dob 12/11/1919). I have managed to find his number (I believe it is his)

Emma Joyce

Cheshire

I am trying to find out which
prisoner of war camp my father
John Trevor Haydon was at held from 1942 until 1945.
He lived in Singapore prior to the outbreak
of war and was in the
Straits Settlement Voulenteer Force (SSVF).

Keith Hughes

Germany

I was very interested in all of yesterdays public celebrations. My father was one of the POW's and I would love to find out more about where he was a prisoner? I have a few details of him, but very little about where he was. His name was Leslie Thomas Hughes, he was a gunner in the Royal Artillery Field Regiment based in Foots Cray, Sidcup, Kent, his number was 904535. I know when he went to war he was on a ship to maybe to India, but I not sure where he was going, his ship was sunk and he spent a few days on a plank of wood before being picked up by the Japanese and taken prisoner. He talked of building a railway! I'd love to know more about that time and where the railway was, and maybe he was building the Bridge over the river Kwai! I have a letter from King George welcoming him home.

Mike

UK 15.08.2015

Hi Wendy ( re Frederick Stanley Norton). Address shown as with Mr Deakin, 27, Great Chadwell, Newport, Salop. I don

Mike

UK 15.08.2015

Hi Jackie (re Laurence Cariss 1782171) Your grandfather was one of the

Janet

Lancs

Has anyone got information on George elmer royal norfork fusiliers captured at the fall of Singapore . Regarding his time as a pow and war experience?

Valerie Beveridge

Perthshire

My late Dad was a Royal Marine Bandsman on board HMS Exeter which was sunk by a Japanese detroyer in the Battle of the Java Sea.
He was taken to Makassar on the island of Celebes and was incarcerated in a P.O.W. camp for 3+ years. Their workload consisted of daily tramping up to a mountain river and extricating huge boulders out to bring back to ground level to make air raid shelters.
There was no hope of escape and if attempted would have been beheaded.
If they didn't salute a guard they were beaten and if they didn't give them a proper answer it would result in the same.
My Dad died in 1992 with intestinal cancer. Whilst doing tests on him they found strongylides which is a worm infestation which

Yvonne

UK

hi, I'm trying to find out if my great uncles were POWs in Kuching. They were called Bobby and Sandy Robertson, from Dundee/Aberdeen. Thanks

Iris edge

Uk

I am trying to find out which prisoner of war camp my father Ralph Brogdale was held in 1942 until 1945. He was taken prisoner in Burma.

Dawn Glover

Devon

My granddad Reginald Furse, Service no 1159816, RAF
was as POW in Java I think 8/3/1942 to 2/9/1945.
Any information would be greatly appreciated,

Wendy Daly

Telford

My dad Frederick Stanley Norton of the 1st Batallion North Lincolnshire Regiment , Number 3855533 He was a POW and helped construct the Burma Railway , any information is greatly appreciated

Martyn

Perth 15:08:2015

Debbie - I can help with information on your great grandfather, Private, 5950609 Thomas Clarke Davies. He was a boat engineer and did finish his time as a POW at the Khoa Din "MT" Workshops in 1945. He was in "D" Company who held coastal defences at Seletar, Singapore, before a series of withdrawals down the Bukit Timah Road. The Beds and Herts were split into two sections during the fighting; C Company and Part of HQ were at Hill 105, east end of Mac-Ritchie reservoir. After the surrender he was based at the Sime Rd POW camp and could have worked on the Shinto Shrine in the forests of the Mac-Ritchie catchment, or on working parties sent to rebuild Singapore City.
He was sent to Thailand with a party of approximately 167 Bedford, on or about the 21st October 1942. They arrived at Ban Pong transit camp before being transported by road to another staging camp for a night in Kanchanaburi, and then ferried across the river and along a jungle tracks to where Chungkai Camp was being constructed in Group 2. Here the Bedford