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Annie Whelan

United Kingdom

Hi there, trying to find out more about my grandfather Bernard Scott who not

Jess Beck

UK

Reginald Victor Wills, working for the Singapore Straits Times newspaper at the time of the Japanese invasion. Taken prisoner and interned initially in Changi Gaol. Then moved to a camp in Burma I believe and ended up working on Burma-Siam railway. Released at the end of the war by American troops I think. I've been unable to track anything down on POW websites as he was a civilian. Any help gratefully received

Mike

UK 30.12.2013

Hi Alexandra, ....... Cpl Angus Rennie of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, service number 2979984. Taken prisoner in the jungle of Malaya, probably on 7th January 1942 at the Battle of Slim River. Imprisoned at Pudu Gaol, Kuala Lumpar. Sent to Ban Pong on the Railroad on 14th October 1942. Arrived at Tamarkan Camp on 23rd October 1942. Died 29th November 1944, now buried at Chunkai Cemetery.

I cant help regarding Alexander (service number 14364524), but I am rather puzzled by the fact that he is recorded as having died nearly 2 months after the end of the war, on 13/10/1945, yet does not have a grave, and is remembered on the Singapore Memorial. I can only assume that this is the date he was identified as missing from all rolls of POWs.

Mrs Alexandra Angus Anderson

QLD, Australia

I am named after two uncles who were
Japanese POWs. They were Pte Alexander Rennie , Army Catering Corps. His brother was Cpl Angus Rennie of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Both died while prisoner. Does anyone know anything about them?

Alexandra.

Robbie Scott

Scotland

Mike, sincere thanks for taking the time to find out about my granddad. It's mindblowing for me to think that when I was 20 I was having the time of my life backpacking across Australia, without a care in the world - yet at the same age my granddad was in the living hell of a Japanese POW camp. I would not be typing this if he had not survived - I would not have been born - so I have much to be thankful for, not least to his POW comrades who took him under their wing because he was a 'youngster'. His three years as a POW had a huge bearing on his future self and, not surprisingly, gave him and his immediate family plenty of dark times. He died 10 years ago but I am still, and always will be, immensely proud of the incredible human spirit and sheer will to survive he and his comrades displayed all those years ago. May they all Rest in Peace. Thank you for your kindness in answering my request for assistance.

Mike

UK 28.12.2013

Hi Robbie. ........... Leading Airman James McGhee. Service number 1059288. 5 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh. Taken prisoner on Java 08.03.1942 Spent all his imprisonment on Java and surrounding islands. Tasikmalaja 08.03.42 , Malang 16.04.42 , Soerabayja 12.10.42 , Ambon Island 05.05.43 , Batavia 08.11.44

Trish Sara (nee Filkins)

Sydney, Australia

My father, Neville Filkins was in Changi after the fall in Singapore.

Robbie Scott

Scotland

Hello! I'd be sincerely grateful for any details of my late grandfather, James McGhee (DOB 26/1/22), of Edinburgh, of the RAF, who spent and survived three years in a Japanese POW camp or camps in Java. General searches have not shed any light on this. If you can help at all, that would be great.

Marijke Klahn

Wichita! Kansas

Hello,

Angela Green

Isle of Wight UK

I wondered if you have now found any information on a camp called 'HATATIG' Capt Bennett Sigs as Camp Leader and Capt Steward RM Rgt as Leader.

Gary Lewis

Bromley Kent

My uncle harry ( Henry ) Lewis was a royal engineer
Was captured Singapore and work on death railway .
Does anyone have any information or remember him
?

Kathy Lennox

Australia

Hi Mike,
Thank you, no not Australian> He is Scottish!

Mike

Lynda...... Just relised I cant email you , you will have to repost with email address.

Mike

Lynda .. Although sadness, what a wonderful age to reach and truly amazing after all that these men went through. I have a couple of files that show his name as RAOC and not REME attached to the 6th Norfolks. If you would like copies respond to email sent.

Lynda turk

Somerset, England

Just to let you know that my father Denis Selby died 17th Sept this year. He was 96.
He survived 3 1/2 years as a guest of the Japanese on the Burma railway. He was in the REME joined to the 8th Norfolks.

Mike

14.12.2013

Ian ---- I cant add much apart from service number 5772316, from Chapel Terrace, Kings Lynn. First sent out from Changi on 07.11.1942 which I think puts him in No. 7 Group. 1260 UK troops sent over 3 days 7th - 9th Nov. Amember of the 6th Norfolks who was on the same train lists they went to Non Pladuk under Lt.Col Gill, and were later with Col Toosey (Bridge on Kwai).

Ian Wakefield

Loughborough UK

Mike do you have any info on my G Uncle Henry William Wakefield born 1918 in King's Lynn. He served in the Norfolk Regiment 6th Battalion and was POW for 3 1/2 yes on the Thai - Burma railway?

Mike

14.12.2013

Kathy ........ Would he have been a UK serviceman or an Australian service man. I only have records of UK POW's and he is NOT listed. There were just 3 POW's named Lennox who were captured, and their christian names were Bernard, Edward, and Gordon. There are however at least 3 Australians named Lennox who died in the Far East, so I assume there must be several who survived.

Kathy Lennox

Australia

Hi,
I just sent an email to your Contact but I don't think it worked.
It said,

Mike

12.12.2013

Annie, John Thorpe was a member of the 2nd Btl. Cambridgeshire Regiment. Taken prisoner at Singapore 15.02.42. Home address listed as Newmarket Road, Risby, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Sent OVL (overland train) to the Railroad on 02.11.42. This was known as "P Party". Died of beri beri at Chunkai. If you want any photos from files add your email. Mike

Annie Thorpe

England

Any details would be appreciated

Mike

09.12.13

Hi Nicola.



He is listed as taken prisoner on 15.12.1941.

Service number 860044

Royal Artillery.



I would need his regiment to look up any further information about which camps etc he was sent to.



Probably ended up in Osaka Japan at end of war.

nicola

northampton

Am interested in finding out if reginald richardson is on your records please? I believe he was a prisoner of war for around 4 years.

patrick oconnell

.HELLO, I AM TRYING TO GET MORE INFORMATION
ON MY FATHER THOMAS JOSEPH OCONNELL SERVICE
NUMBER 1115802

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Jackie, Its difficult to know whether you mean his name is Ingle or McMurty, but surprisingly there was just one soldier called Ingle who was a prisoner of the Japanese, and there was NO prisoners by the name of McMurty. Donald Ingle, from Illinois, serial number 19056604, 31st Infantry HQ. Taken prisoner in the Philippines and sent to Fukuoka 08B camp, Inatsuki. Rescued in Sept. 1945.