On arrival at Mojio, the POWs were split & sent to Moji & Kobe camps. From June 1944 women and children from Poeloe Berayan were interned here & in July 1945 they were moved to Aek Pamienke II near to a rubber plantation. Suga committed suicide there on the 16th of September. They were forced to engage in the hard labour of constructing railways, roads, airfields, etc. Which are all released under the terms of Creativecommons.org/licenses/by-s/3.0/. Changi Gaol was scheduled for demolition in the second half of 2004, although the original entrance gate and a section of the outer wall were preserved as a memorial. Rashin Maru (AKA Canadian Prince/Potomac). Lack of water, outside latrines, lack of screens for doors and windows, crowded buildings and the general lethargy of the prisoners contributed to poor sanitation. These horrific incidents following the fall of Ambon became the subject of one of the largest ever war crimes trials: 93 Japanese personnel were tried by an Australian military tribunal at Ambon. Cofepow.org.uk is now making images of some original documentation and prisoner release/questionnaire forms. Akikase was later torpedoed and sunk on 03/11/44 by the US submarine USS Pintado. If you find an error or omission we would be pleased to hear from you and we'll correct or add any detail as necessary. Both ships reached Takao harbour in Taiwan on New Year's Day, where the smaller group of prisoners was transferred from Brazil Maru to Enoura Maru, and 37 British and Dutch were taken ashore. This may have been because the wages were only on paper. She was deliberately scuttled by the Dutch to prevent her from falling into enemy hands but the Japanese refloated and salvaged her in 1942. *The so-called 'INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY', was an armed force formed to secure Indian independence with Japanese assistance and was largely, at this time, composed of ex Indian (British) army soldiers captured with the other commonwealth troops. "F" Force was not classified as a normal working group of slave labourers. 1600+ British POWs arrived here on May 20th 1943 from a 300-mile march from Ban Pong. Maryland, 1863. Left Singapore carrying 525 POWs 23/12/44 and arrived Moji Japan 13/01/45. The IRCC delegates who inspected Keijo camp in December 1942, allegedly told Mr R. P. Phillips, an Australian Red Cross Representative held there, that it was the "best" Japanese camp he had yet seen. In 1942, Corporal Rodney Breavington and Private Victor Gale from the Australian Imperial Force, Private Harold Waters from the East Surrey Regiment and Private Eric Fletcher from the Royal Army Service Corps were recaptured after a failed escape attempt. The POWs who were accused of committing serious crimes or those who tried to escape were prosecuted at the Japanese Army Court Martial and sent to prison for Japanese criminals, many were executed in front of their fellow POWs. The 110 most severe cases were taken to a primitive military hospital in Kokura where 73 died within a month. Our database contains only those rosters we have managed to source so far -If you know of other roster lists please let us know if you know where these may be located and we will add them if at all possible. A former British prisoner of war describes building the bridge over the River Kwai during WW2. WW2 - British Army Soldiers Rescue Mission in Normandy - Prisoners of War - Call of Duty 2. In the North & Central areas around 3,200 men were incarcerated, with a party of 2,000 men being transported to Burma in May 1942. Inside the compound, POW quarters usually consisted of rows of two or three-storied bunk beds with either traditional Japanese Goza (woven straw mats) or tatami (straw mattresses) on the wooden bunks. WW2 People's War Homepage Archive List Timeline About This Site: Contact Us: Japanese Prisoner of war. Register with your email address now, we can then send you an alert as soon as we add a record close matching the one you were searching for. They were not allowed to buy food. Sailed from Singapore to Japan (Moji) on 28/11/42 with 557 POWs, some reports show the ship terminating at Nagasaki however on this voyage. WW2 People's War Homepage Archive List Timeline About This Site: Contact Us: Japanese Prisoner Of War by Norfolk Adult Education Service. Sailed from Singapore to Japan (Moji) 27/10/42 with 1205 POWs. Stories categorised in 'Prisoners of War'. Theft of food because of hunger was met with an especially terrible punishment. The prisoners of war suffered greatly at the hands of the guards for not cutting the rock quickly or well enough. Prisoners of war who have been interned in the Hanawa Prisoner of War Camp #6 at Honshu, Japan, joyously greet 1st Lt. Jack Bresnick of Boston, Massachusetts, the first American they have seen in three or four years. It was torpedoed and sunk 30 July 1945 by USS Sennet (SS-408) off Hokkaido. The other 60 per cent were primarily miners and businessmen. When it was attacked and sunk on September 18, 1944, by Tradewind, the Junyo Maru was packed with 1,377 Dutch, 64 British and Australian, and 8 American prisoners of war along with 4,200 Javanese slave labourers (Romushas) bound for work on the railway line being built between Pakan Baru and Muaro in Sumatra. One of which was the transportation of 900 British POWs from Singapore on 28/10/42 to Takao, Taiwan. TNA also holds liberated prisoner of war interrogation questionnaires in WO 344 . In a night raid in late January 1945, under the cover of darkness and a distraction by a P-61 Black Widow, the group of US Rangers, Alamo Scouts (a US special reconnaissance unit) and Filipino guerrillas surprised the Japanese forces in and around the camp. However, the pay was in the form of account books, not in cash. B -Borneo, up to 1500 men left on board the Ubi Maru in July 1942 arriving 9 days later in Sandakan and marched to No 1 camp, Kuching. These prisoners were then so mistreated that by the end of the war only 6 of the Australians had survived and every single one of the 700 British soldiers had died in … Used to ferry 1287 British, Dutch & Australian POWs including RAF from Singapore leaving on 4th July 1944. Prisoner of war camps in Japan housed both capture military personnel and civilians who had 1,379 casualties are commemorated in the Chonk-Kai War Cemetery which is on the same spot as the previous POW camp on the railways' course 2km south of the town of Kwai Noi. Note: there may be duplicated entries for some camp descriptions as camp names and sub names are often confusing: i.e. Many died due to asphyxia, starvation or dysentery. They were joined there by 300 Chinese internees. Here, many who were not beaten to death by the guards died from disease (mainly cholera and dysentery), exhaustion or starvation. For most of the war, Changi was one of the least brutal Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, particularly compared to those on Burma–Thailand railway. Jul 31, 2016 - Explore Theresa Steele's board "World War II: Prisoners of War", followed by 281 people on Pinterest. Note: Hellships were frequently renamed or known by other names -AKA in these listings means 'also known as'. There is a great deal of evidence the ICRC did visit some camps which were made ‘presentable’ to them by the Japanese. As Commander of all POW and civilian internee camps, Suga was responsible for the many atrocities that took place in these camps, including the Sandakan Death Marches. Japanese POW’s were made to … While in San Fernando, 15 weak or wounded prisoners were loaded on a truck, believing they would be taken to Bilibid for treatment. Mitsubishi, Nippon express etc. By the time the war was over, a total of more than 30,000 POWs had died from starvation, diseases, and mistreatment both within and outside of the Japanese Mainland. Sailed from Singapore to Manila on 04/7/44 with 1287 POWs on board arriving 15 days later. The ship contained many injured service personnel and 64 Australian nurses of the 2/13th Australian General Hospital. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google
The ship was later part of a convoy sailing on 3rd June 1944 from Batavia, Java towards Japan with 772 Australian, British and American prisoners of war on board. Toilets were traditional Japanese ‘dipping style’ (open latrines), and POWs had to endure the smell and flies and POWs were used for labour to empty the latrines which usually went to fertilise crops: a common practice in Japan at this time. While the attitude of the Japanese authorities regarding prisoners' mail seems to have been one of indifference, their attitude regarding visits to prisoner-of-war and internment camps was much more positive. The registers refer to camps numbered 1-4, the identity of these had not previously been established but it is now believed that these refer to: No 1 PoW camp - Changi, No 2 PoW camp - Serangoon Road Camp, No 3 PoW camp - River Valley Road Camp and No 4 PoW camp - Adam Road Camp. All 500 internees were crowded into a single building, which had previously housed 60 soldiers, and the Japanese made little provision for food and water. Carried 74 officers and government officials of the Dutch East Indies from Singapore to Formosa departing January 10th & taking 26 days in 1943. He and his crew sent two torpedoes speeding through the icy waters of the South China Sea toward the ship, striking it on the starboard number three hold and the stern. The group of prisoners was then moved to San Fernando, Pampanga. It was a place of starvation, torture and terror, a place of madness and, for many, death. Following the Japanese surrender in 1945, these roles were reversed and the former captors of WWII became POWS on Blakang Mati and were housed in the same barracks. This policy reflected the practices of Japanese warfare in the pre-modern era. Extensive data sources for those enslaved on the Burma-Siam 'death' Railway, highly recommended! A Kempeitai Prison rather than a fully fledged POW camp, located in Rabaul town itself. E -Borneo, Left for Sandakan on 28/3/43 1000 men strong, on the SS de Klerk. On November 1, 1944, Asama Maru was torpedoed and sunk by the US Submarine ‘Atule’ 100 miles (160 km) south of the island of Pratas. You learn not to get too close to someone because the next day they could be dead. Several times a month, meat or fish was provided, but as the food situation in Japan worsened, the meat disappeared. In all of the industries where POWs were assigned, their work consisted mostly of simple physical labour, such as carrying raw materials or goods, loading, unloading, construction work, and mining. Again those at Macassar fared worst: they were each allowed to write one letter only, which was not despatched but readout, often in a mutilated fashion, during a broadcast from Radio Tokyo. The bridge was built on a small tributary of the larger main river at Tha Mae Kham, some miles away from the Bridge that tourists are now shown as ‘the bridge’. Pontianak POW camp, Pontianak (Dutch Borneo) Kalimantan, Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo) Kalimantan, Tanjung Priok POW camp, Tanjung Priok (Java), Koan School, Batavia (modern Jakarta) (Java), Glodok Gaol, Golodok, a suburb of Batavia (modern Jakarta) (Java), Bicycle Camp, Batavia (modern Jakarta) (Java). As the Tamahoko (6,780 tons) settled in the water, hundreds of prisoners jumped into the sea and soon a Japanese whale-chaser appeared and started picking up survivors. Prisoners experienced severe mistreatment, and several deaths occurred. The shots wounded the four but did not kill them. Conditions in Korean camps were amongst the best a POW could hope for in territories under Japanese control. Director: Tun Fei Mou | Stars: Jianxin Chen , Hsu Gou , Linjie Hao , Haizhe Jin Japanese Registers of POWs WWII - The records are contained in Japanese Registers of Allied Prisoners of War (PoWs) and civilian internees held in camps in Singapore, Second World War.This series comprises three registers which record the names of over 13,000 allied Prisoners of War and civilian internees of British and other nationalities during the Second World War. Maebashi Maru (AKA Maybashi/Maebassi maru), Mati Mati Maru (AKA Matti Matti Maru, Canadian Inventor). Prisoners of War of the Japanese 1939-1945. 37,583 prisoners from the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and Dominions, 28,500 from Netherlands and 14,473 from the United States were released after the surrender of Japan. At the Konan camp, some of the work was physically harder, such as stoking carbide furnaces. Sailed from Ambon to java departing on 31/8/44 and going via Makassar and to Surabaya with 300 pows on board, arriving in Java on 29/9/44. The POWs used the clothes that they had with them upon their arrival in Japan, and the camps provided work clothes such as tenugui (Japanese cotton towel), jikatabi (traditional work footwear), and gunte (work gloves made of cotton). News of those held in the Dutch East Indies seems to have been withheld the longest. About 36,000 were transported to the Japanese Mainland to supplement the shortage of the work force, and compelled to work at the coal mines, mines, shipyards, munitions factories, etc. Not all camps had the same regime; some were far stricter than others often very much to the point of brutality so don’t be too surprised to hear of vastly differing experiences. Sailed from Sandakan Borneo to Labuan Island 0n 30th august 1943 arriving 3rd September with 8 POWs. Prisoners in Japan, on the whole, fared better, especially those at Zentsuji (where one man received 80 letters), than men in the Dutch East Indies where the number seldom reached double figures. This extract courtesy of The New Zealand Historical publications branch: In their negotiations with the Japanese through neutral channels, the Allied authorities never ceased trying to obtain from the full information concerning the Allied nationals in their hands, regular facilities for the sending of relief supplies and mail, and permission for neutral inspectors to visit prisoner-of-war and internment camps. This is less than the percentage for Japanese run camps as a whole and brings into stark contrast the fact that for this to be 10% officially, the other camps, notably on the Burma-Thailand railway were far higher than the ‘average’ death rate of 27%. These were the debriefing reports given by prisoners released from German or Japanese captivity at the end of the Second World War. During the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines in World War II, Camp O'Donnell was the final stop of the Bataan Death March and was used as an internment camp for Filipino and American prisoners of war. Sailed from Singapore to Moji (Japan) departed 20/9/43 with 507 POWs. Relatives of British Malayan civilian internees can, by appointment, visit the Imperial War Museum Reading Room to view similar details of Changi Gaol internees in the Changi Register and view other short details in the 1940 Malayan Directory. The list below is not definitive, however, there is some information on every ship that it was possible to find data on immediately. A machine gun was set up on the beach and when the women were waist deep, they were machine-gunned. Once it was discovered that the island was held by the Japanese, an officer of the Vyner Brooke went to surrender the group to the authorities in Muntok. (Khwae Yai). The big difference between the Branch Camp and Dispatched Camp is as follows: In a Branch Camp the Japanese Army supplied all the housing, food, and clothing for the POWs, In a Dispatched/detached camp food, housing, and clothing were provided by the companies and the IJA (Imperial Japanese Army) only provided the POWs and military staff. The kempeitai were the military police of the Japanese Imperial army during World War II. Most of the casualties of the infamous Burma-Siam railway are buried or commemorated in the cemeteries at Thanbyuzayat, Kanchanaburi & Chungkai with those who have no known grave remembered on the Rangoon or Singapore memorials. In each camp, there was some facility like a simple clinic, but medical supplies were as scarce as they were among Japan's civilian population. "BRITISH CIVILIANS INTERNED BY THE JAPANESE DURING WORLD WAR II" By Ron BRIDGE A requirement to establish a definitive list of British subjects interned as civilians by the Japanese in Concentration Camps (some euphemistically called Civil Assembly Centres by Tokyo) has shown that no comprehensive list appears to be in existence. The basic menu was a bowl of rice, a cup of miso soup, and some pickles. to be used by the Japanese Armed Forces in the occupied areas. The Hiroshima Main Camp absorbed Zentsuji POW Camp making a total of seven main camps. Used to ferry some of the party of 2200 British, Dutch & Australian POWs including RAF from Singapore to Moji (Japan) leaving 5th June 1944. A rescue attempt (as per Cabanatuan) using US Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescued 2,147 Allied servicemen and Civilians from this camp. A Dutch-built ship of 2071 tonnes, launched in 1900. 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