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Keith Edgington

Devon

I have done some research into the service records of an uncle Signalman John

Jennifer

Melb Australia 31/03/14

Thank you for this amazing site and information.

Mike

UK 30.03.2014

Donna, ( re McLAREN, R E ) . Army Number: NX47369. 2/30battalion. D Company 18 Platoon. Ship to Singapore: Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt . 29/7/1941. Sent with "F Force" to the Death Railway in Train 5, Truck 14. (F Force was the one that suffered a large amount of death from cholera). Repatriated from Singapore on 9/10/1945 in the ship Esperance Bay.

donna laing

Australia

Hello, I'm looking for any information on robert

Audrey

Florida

My Mother that was Dutch, was in a camp in Indonesia. She shared very little with us. Now as an adult and with my Mom gone, I have been reading everything I can to learn what she must have experienced. Does the name Irvine Nabilcy or Irvine Wiggers ring a bell to anyone?

Mike

UK 23.03.2014

Hi Allan (re Bernard Egbert Bernsten ). Cant find anything about his early POW days, but have some information for later. Maybe this is what you already have on his Index Card though. Sailed from Batavia on 14.09.44 on the Kinta Maru 2, as part of "Java Party 24". 1080 POWs of which over 1000 were dutch and only 47 were British. They came from the 10th Batallion Camp in Batavia. They landed in Singapore atPoelau Damar, a small island at the south-coast of Singapore. The men were put to work constructing submarine pens. The men were able to supplement their diets with fish and crabs. which helped compansate for working in mangrove swamp conditions. Bernard was the only member of the SS City of Manchester in this party.

Allan White

Falkland Islands

Seeking information about my cousin Bernard Egbert Bernsten ("Bernie") who was a PoW under the Japanese in the Dutch East Indies for 3

Mike

21.03.2014

Irene, ( re: Ernest Dixon 3859461 . 2nd Battalion The Loyals) your Dad never completed a Liberation Questionnaire which would have named his camps, but some information is available. He left Changi, Singapore, on 16.08.1942 (sailing 18.08.1942) on the Fukkai Maru and this was a shipment always designed as a propaganda sailing. It was known as

irene barden

preston lancs

Hi my dad was a pow in japan for over four years he worked in the kawasaki ship yard and remembers the atom bomb dropping . Hes 96 and still remembers bits but not all . His name is Ernest Dixon 3859461 . 2nd Battalion the Loyals . It would be nice if anybody remembers my dad and has more infirmation for me about where he stayed and what he did as he doesnt really say . Thanks irene

Mike

UK 17.03.2014

Sarah, (re Alfred Douglas Trant), Im not sure I have the right person. Was his home Brixham, Devon ? Where does the story concerning the bamboo come from?

sarah

Davis

Should have added my email, thanks!

Sarah D

Scotland

Hi I am trying to find out more about my Uncle, Alfred Douglas Trant, know as Douglas, He was a Signalman from The Royal corps of Signals, a POW working on the Burma Railway. He died there in 1944 as a result of burns to his feet from standing on hot bamboo. He was in such poor condition he didn't survive. I would like to find out how he ended up in Burma/Thailand, hew he was captured, what camp he was in, anything really. he is buried in Chungkai cemetery, Thailand. Thank you

Ian Sayer

UK

Researching a former member of the Malayan Police who was taken prisoner by the Japanese about 1941. After the war he joined the Corps of Commissionaires and in the early 1960s worked for The Yorkshire Insurance Company in Cornhill, EC3. He lived in the vicinity of Southfields SW18 and was known to be alice c.1978. Please contact me if you have any further information about this man.

Dave Waring

Sydney Australia

Hi, I am attempting to find information relating to Sub Lieutenant William Henry Roberts. Lieut Roberts wrote to my grandmother in 1946 regarding my grandfather who died whilst serving on HMAS Perth.

Georgia

Leeds, West Yorkshire

George beecroft was believed to be in the West Yorkshire regiment. Sorry.

Georgia

Leeds, West Yorkshire

Hi, just wondering if you could give me any information on my grandad George Beecroft of the Yorshire regiment. He was a Japanese POW after being captured along with a number of soldiers sleeping in a barn. Any information is greatly received. Thank you.

Sita

Brisbane Australia

Hi, we are searching out some history on my father Otto Ernst Horninge, born in Batavia 12/5/1922.

Nina McCaulley

Southfield Michigan

Hi,

Dave keeton

Northumberland UK

No Probs mike thanks again

Mike

David, Rewind. Sorry, I got my Hospital ships confused. I should have said HMHS Tjitjalengka and NOT Oranje

Dave keeton

Northumberland UK

Thanks Mike for your time and help .

Mike

UK 05.03.2014

Dave, cant help much on this one but a couple of bits. I think Malay Camp 5 is Camp ref 797 Kanchanabri. The only document I have showing your fathers name, states he was initially sent to the Death Railway on 09.10.1942, which makes him part of Workgroup 2. As he was hospitalised upon repatriation, I would investigate the likelyhood that he was sent by Hospital Ship (but does not always follow). The two main hospital ships that went to New Zealand were the Maunganui and the Oranje. I have previously tried an in depth check on the Maunganui in NZ, Australia and Southampton and have the list of everyone who disembarked in Southampton and he is NOT listed. There are no names listed for NZ or OZ. I would therefore concentrate on the Oranje.

Dave keeton

Northumberland UK

Denielle Pooley

Perth Australia

Hi I am trying to find information how the POW's were brought home to Darwin and then Perth Western Australia? Were they taken from Thailand to Bangkok or Singapore then to Darwin Australia? I am interested in the 2/4 MGB (reinforcements) as my Dad E.A Cornell was a POW Japanese internment.
Thanking you Denielle Pooley

Margaret Martin

Brighton, UK

Sarah Goundry told me of the LAD RAOC list and one of the members of the Java FEPOW Club is listed there! Slight error in his service number - his starts with a 4 not a 1 but it is definitely him! We are so thrilled! Mike, how can I access more of this wonderful document? Is it in the National Archives at Kew? If so, please can you send me the reference number? It will be so useful for the work of we researchers. For interest, the Java FEPOW Club's website is www.thejavafepowclub42.org and, although - as indicated - we were formerly made up of FEPOWs captured in Java, since the closure of so many clubs, we welcome anybody. I look after the welfare of the FEPOWs, wives and widows from a FEPOW Fund administered for us by the Royal British Legion. Many thanks for all you do for FEPOWs. Kind regards
Margaret