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The Japanese intensified their pressure with threats of cutting the water supply, halving rations, and threatening to move the Robert Barracks Hospital to the Selerang Barracks Square. 15/5/42 Some 2000 Dutch & British POWs from Sumatra were transported to Mergui, Burma. These are unfortunately not as yet digitised and available online they require a visit from either the person searching or a researcher on your behalf, some spellings are incorrect, however, these are the listings directly from the National Archives register. River Valley Camp/Havelock Road camp (Malai 3). Thai prisoners work for little money and often, to survive in prison, they need outside funds. It was torpedoed and sunk 30 July 1945 by USS Sennet (SS-408) off Hokkaido. <>
Almost 900 of the villains crammed into foreign hell holes are drug dealers, with 154 child sex beasts and 102 caged for immigration offences. Now both young men are still only getting into the stride of what will still be very long and painful prison term even if both are eventually transferred to home prisons. Once a day, youd be given a meal. They were not allowed to buy food. 1 Hospital, Singapore, JC /10 Alexandra Hospital, Havelock Road working camp, Singapore, JC /39 Seletar Camp, ( naval case ), Singapore, JC /46 Buller Camp, Breucassie, Singapore, JC /89 Buket Timah, Chinese High School, Singapore, JC /140 Fort Connaught, Blakang Mati Island, Singapore, JC /45 Medan Quarantine Station and Gloeger, Sumatra, JC /148 Muntok, Bangka Island, off Sumatra, JC /167 Aek Ramienke Estate Camp 1, Sumatra, JC /302 Si Rengo Rengo, Ranthauparapat, Sumatra, Some of the material on this page was also partially derived from, , , , , , , , , , . The two camps were only separated by a small river/canal with a bridge built across it. Sailed from Singapore to Moji (Japan) departed 21/10/43 with 1155 POWs. Only in 1944 were the agents of the International Red Cross Committee in Singapore and the Swiss Consul in Bangkok able to work openly and effectively as distributors of Red Cross relief supplies. 2nd Lieutenant USAF Samuel C. Grashio survived the Bataan Death March and participated in the only successful mass escape from a Japanese prison camp. F- Thailand 7000 inF Force, left Changi for Thailand between 16-18 April 1943. Sailed from Palau to New Guniea on 20/1/44 with 611 POWs on board. History note Cataloguer Backlog History note Catalogue date 1977-07 Object details Object associations Associated subjects Original documents Miscellaneous Documents Debbie has said that he believes her son was vulnerable after the shock death of the young woman he loved. A rescue attempt (as per Cabanatuan) using US Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescued 2,147 Allied servicemen and Civilians from this camp. In the first place, they refused for the greater part of the war to recognise, except in Japan, Shanghai and Hong Kong, the right of representatives of the Protecting Power and the International Red Cross Committee to pay visits of inspection. 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. The registers give minimal information about each prisoner, apparently compiled for the Japanese camp administration although the majority of the information is given in English. 12 0 obj
Some camps even provided POWs with small amounts of tobacco. Low-income prisoners, including foreigners, are particularly vulnerable to social inequality. 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 Yuzan Maru was a US-made freighter. There were also many work accidents where POWs were injured. Company guards were responsible for the POWs while they were at work. Some rosters show if living, dead or killed in action (KIA), cause of death and burial site. The Japanese cut off the water supply to the toilets, leaving the prisoners with no toilet facilities. Negotiations with the Japanese for an exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of war produced no result, but those for an exchange of civilians made possible two repatriation operations, one in 1942 and the other in 1943. Bang Kwang is a grim place holding long term prisoners, and is where the death sentence is carried out on rare occasions. In one post, she revealed that Lance was recently down because a friends in prison who had supported him in Klong Prem for the last 4 years had just been released. Besides, that sent on exchange ships, mail for prisoners of war in the Far East was by July 1942 being transported across Russia to her Pacific seaboard and thence to Japan, under an agreement reached with the Soviet Government. Its name came from the peninsula on which it stood, named in turn after a village there for some time before British rule. Co-accused Anthony Flannaghan was sentenced to death by lethal injection after being convicted of possession with intent to sell. 18 0 obj
With the lights of Japan in sight on 26th June 1944 one of the ships in the convoy exploded after being torpedoed by the US submarine USS Tang. The 110 most severe cases were taken to a primitive military hospital in Kokura where 73 died within a month. Dainichi was torpedoed on 08/10/43 by USS Gurnard, along with another Japanese ship, she was carrying a troop transport of over 2000 at this time. [ 15 0 R]
All the other guards received long prison sentences. The survivors of the sinking of the Oruku maru (see above) were held for several days in an open tennis court at Olongapo Naval Base. But Prisoners Abroad helped me there too. New Zealanders at Macassar received no mail at all. Their tasks involved the cleaning up and repairing of war-torn parts of the city and the badly bombed Chinatown area. The Changi Peninsula had been the British Army's principal base area in Singapore. The more interesting material is often the returning POW questionnaires found within WO392/23 (A-D) WO392/26 (R-Z), these were collated by MI9, the British secret service department responsible for escape and evasion. March - October 1943. After an exchange of salutes between the POWs and their senior officers, the firing squad opened fire. Conditions in Korean camps were amongst the best a POW could hope for in territories under Japanese control. It may be that as a consequence, conditions in the Korean camps, and especially at Keijo, were significantly better than in most other Japanese controlled camps. Out of an estimated 5.7 million Soviet POWs captured by the Germans, 3.3 million died in captivity. Camp, Hosokura, Hakodate Group, Japan, JC /207 Nishin, Nishiro, Tokyo Group,Kawasaki, Japan, JC /209 Shinagawa Camp, Tokyo Group, Japan, JC /221 Yawata No. The group of prisoners was then moved to San Fernando, Pampanga. Nazi concentration camps. He said his son had witnessed two stabbings and an attempted rape up to that point while imprisoned there. This turned out to be the tipping point as the move would endanger the lives of gravely ill patients and also lead to the spread of diseases. The new railway route commenced building on 22nd June 1942 and completed on 17th October 1943, the most famous part near the townKanchanaburi spanningthe river Mekhong is Bridge 277 the famous Bridge on the River Kwai. By July the details of the agreement with the Japanese had been finalised for the exchange to take place at Loureno Marques, in Portuguese East Africa. A Kempeitai Prison rather than a fully fledged POW camp, located in Rabaul town itself, https://www.awm.gov.au/events/conference/2002/degroen.asp, Please enter your password, it must be 8 or more characters, I agree to Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statement, Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its activities during the Second World War, Vol,1,p.451, prisoner-of-war and internment camps in Japan, Allied prisoners and civilians in Japanese hands, Ships from Hell: Japanese War Crimes on the High Seas in World War II, Japanese Registers of Allied Prisoners of War (PoWs), www.paperlessarchives.com/FreeTitles/POWCampsOutisdeJapan.pdf, Many exclusive records, found only on our site, 1 on 1 Personal assistance from military photo and document experts, Access to Orbats mapping tool, allowing you to trace your WW1 ancestors steps. Sister Bullwinkel was later captured again and spent the rest of the war in captivity. In contrast, the IRCC was not given access to camps in South-East Asia where conditions were far worse and frequently appalling. Sailed from Manila to Davao departing on 1/7/42 the journey lasted 8 days and had 200 POWs on board. Both cases related to somewhat different circumstances it must be said. Besides returning with Japanese officials and other civilians, these ships carried back mail and relief supplies for Allied nationals held by the Japanese. Many prisoners in Klong Prem are drug addicts. Sailed from Hong Kong to Osaka on 15/8/43 with 501 POWs. In some camps, there were canteens where the POWs could buy simple daily necessities. Four other groups were sent to Fukuoka POW camps 1, 3, 4, and 17. The 7,000 men within this unit composed of 3,444 British and nearly 3,600 Australians, the Journey took 5 days and ended at Ban Pong, although then a 200-mile march ensued towards Burma. Thai prisons are known to be very difficult for foreign, western prisoners, without support both materially and mentally, to survive. The Oryoku Maru was a 7,363-ton passenger-cargo liner that the Japanese used to transport 1,620 survivors of the Bataan Death March, Corregidor and other battle sites. The first time I walked into my cell was like heading into the lions den. Canadian Inventor (Mati Mati Maru/ Sekiho Maru). Drinking water was boiled as chemicals were not available. 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. Even though there are prison shops, queues are huge, and some prisoners dont have enough to get snacks and additional products. This was a special camp where the POWs captured by the Navy were held before they were transferred to Army control. Sadly, many prisons across Thailand havent changed for decades, and people are forced to live in dehumanizing conditions, cramped cells, and witness daily brutality. Mr Davies, who has a previous conviction in the UK in the 1960s for obtaining money by deception, has written an account of his time inside which he hopes will be published. His brother says he is innocent and claims he was tortured in detention. We add around 200,000 new records each month. The camps were mainly set up in mines and the industrial areas such as Keihin (Tokyo and Yokohama), and Hanshin (Osaka and Kobe). Davies, who had a labour contracting and helicopter servicing business in Thailand, was arrested in 1990 and accused of heroin dealing. All of the main camps except Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch, Niederhagen, Kauen, Kaiserwald, and Vaivara (1937 borders). Literally! He lamented the fact that prison guards took away two soft Towels he had bought for his son as they were deemed too luxurious for the prison. 73 Jaokunnen Rd, Ban Nua, Kanchanaburi 71000 Thailand, WO356 index numbers for specific camps within the National Archives. list of british prisoners in thailand 21st May 2022 . He claimed he had been framed. In late August the Asama Maru reached Loureno Marques with some 800 civilians from Japan, South-East Asia and the Philippines, and within the following fortnight, the Tatura Maru and the Kamakura Maru arrived with a further 1000-odd from occupied China. It is the Thai authorities who must ultimately agree the terms as the prison sentences were imposed by Thai courts under Thai law. No water and very little food were provided for the majority of this journey. stream
On the average New Zealand page 351 next-of-kin waited 18 months for the first news of their prisoner or internee relative; the news even then was often only a card or a message over the Japanese-controlled radio. The Japanese Army and POW Policies: White and Asian POWs by Aiko Utsumi, 2005. Prisoners of British nationality imprisoned by an authority other than that of the United Kingdom. 14). On September 7, 1944, the hell ship SS Shinyo Maru was attacked by the submarine USS Paddle. Many prisoners, however, indicated that because of the availability of fresh vegetables in the warmer months and local fish during winter, rations were in some ways better than at Jinsen and Keijo. Manpower for the Imperial Japanese armed forces became ever more critical as Allied forces closed in, rolling back the tide of Japanese territory, so the Japanese began transferring POWs by sea back towards the Japanese home Islands. 1 0 obj
*4-The worlds merchant fleets by Roger Jordan 1999. A set of 3 ships carried around 2200 POWs to Moji however. She also revealed that her son receives great comfort and hope from receiving letters and visits at the prison. Exact departure dates are confusing since some sources state 3rd June and some 5th June 1944. Briton freed after 17 years in Thai jails feels 'let down' by FO Duncan Campbell Tue 15 May 2007 20.53 EDT A Blackpool businessman who spent more than 17 years in jail in Thailand, including. According to the findings of the Tokyo Tribunal, the death rate of Western prisoners was 27.1%, seven times that of POWs under the Germans and Italians. on 24 June put the railway out of commission for the rest of the war. Many of the fortifications, such as Fort Saint Elmo and Fort Ricasoli, were also used as prisons at some point. Several times a month, meat or fish was provided, but as the food situation in Japan worsened, the meat disappeared. No wonder Thai prisons are often described not as purgatories but pure hell. He has spent nearly 19 months in an Indian prison accused of being connected to the murders of a number of Hindu nationalists. *3 Australian war memorial archiveshttps://www.awm.gov.au/events/conference/2002/degroen.asp. At the time, Lances mother, Debbie Caswell who has championed support efforts for her son including her own regular video calls to him in prison, felt strongly that the psychological fallout from the sudden death of Lances beautiful Thai fiance, was a big factor in his admitted criminal actions in August 2014. Ordinarily, the POWs carried a lunch box to work, and in some cases, the companies provided food for the POWs. Sailed from Takao Taiwan on 22/8/44 bound for Japan (Unspecified port)arriving 8 days later with 707 POWs on board. 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. Nicknamed the Benjo Maru as Benjo means toilet -due to the number of POWs suffering dysentery on board. Conditions at Camp Holmes were much better. With his beautiful Thai girlfriend, he regularly attended high profile parties and entertainment events and was often seen with beautiful women. In the 1946 war crimes trial, they were reported to have been taken to a nearby cemetery, beheaded, and dumped into a mass grave. endobj
In addition to those two hospitals, POWs were sometimes sent to nearby Army hospitals or hospitals that belonged to the companies where they worked. We assist British citizens during their incarceration, and we also help family and friends affected by a relative or loved one's imprisonment. Getting enough food was a daily challenge. Cofepow.org.uk is now making images of some original documentation and prisoner release/questionnaire forms. Id lost touch with my family back in the UK: I couldnt ask them to support me I began to feel so isolated. The young Thai woman had succumbed to a meningitis infection. 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. The FCDO is represented in Thailand by the British Embassy Bangkok, Both employ consular officers, and one of their duties is to provide help and advice to any British . By the summer last year 2,205 Brits were banged up overseas, often in squalid conditions. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. At that time, his father, 56 year Russell Whitmore expressed his frustration at the fate of his son. Catherine Wolthuizen of FTA said: "John's case was riddled with inconsistencies and flaws. Although the man suffered serious injuries and had his eyeball replaced, he was charged with "fighting back" (as per The Taiger). In September and October 1943 several hundred Americans and Canadians, including a number from Hong Kong, walked with relief from the Teia Maru on to the Gripsholm at Marmagao in Portuguese India. On December 8, the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor (on the other side of the International Date Line), he flew from Nichols Field to engage in aerial combat against the Japanese in his Curtis P-40E fighter aeroplane. Lieutenant Kenichi Nakagawa was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Ezra Feehan, 32, spent months in jail - despite never bein C- Japan, Left Singapore on 28/11/42 and arrival was split into those that went onto Kobe (Kawasaki) camp and Naoetsu (number 4 Tokyo camp). Unlike weapons and supply transports (which were sometimes marked as Red Cross ships), these prisoner transports were unmarked and were targeted by Allied submarines and aircraft very often the majority of these ships were sunk by the end of the war. Jake Mostraini, the Australian man, must wait at least two more years to even apply and will serve a far longer prison term in Australia as his sentence in Thailand was two life sentence terms. Sailed from Singapore on 06/09/44 to Japan with 900 POWs on board. Unknown to the Japanese, there was a radio secretly hidden by the POWs on the grounds, which provided them with news from the outside world. The ship was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sank. Carried 1100 POWs from Singapore to Moji (Japan) on 30/10/42. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. A Babar Ahmad Syed Talha Ahsan Haroon Rashid Aswat B Leo Baron Ernest Bethell Conrad Black Edith Bone Kamel Rabat Bouralha Lee Bradley Brown Mervyn Brown Carmel Budiardjo C Linda Carty Sheila Cassidy David Cecil (producer) Brian Charrington Harold Cole D Cosmas Desmond E El Shafee Elsheikh F Joshua French G John Edward Greaves Sandra Gregory Roofs of the POW camps were marked with the letters PW and relief supplies were dropped by parachute using US Navy fighter-bombers and US Air Force B-29 heavy bombers. "Once you're on death row, the chains are welded to your ankle and they can only take them off with a wheel cutter after they've shot you or your sentence is reduced," he said yesterday. A camp leader who openly criticised conditions and treatment was liable to be beaten after the departure of the visitor, and recourse was had sometimes to the passing of messages while shaking hands to convey the true situation. Don't miss a thing! endobj
Sunk by US submarine USS Whale (SS-329) on 17/2/43 on a voyage from Saipan to Truk with 900 POWs aboard. The amount of mail received varied greatly and almost inexplicably. At the same time, the Japanese guarding the prisoners opened fire on them while they were trying to abandon ship or swim to the nearby island of Mindanao. The Thailand-Burma railway was a 258 mile (415km) track route covering the distance between Bangkok Thailand and Rangoon Burma, it was built using slave labour under the control of the Japanese army during the period 1942-45. The young man, who is now 32 years of age, is believed to be suffering from the physical and mental effects of 5 years in Bangkoks Klong Prem prison on the outskirts of Bangkok in Chatuchak. Under the prisoner transfer agreement, all outstanding fines must be paid before the matter can be progressed. Suga was based at Batu Lintang internment camp, although he was usually elsewhere at the other POW camps under his jurisdiction. The FCO say they are aware of 13 British Nationals currently awaiting execution in the USA, Pakistan, Democratic Repubic of Congo, Ethiopia, Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Ghana and Bali. Klong Prem Prison is in Ngamwongwang Road in north Bangkok, and includes a medium term center, Bangkok Remand Prison, and the juvenile remand center. In many cases, with UK prisoners in Thailand with very severe sentences, the quickest route to release, even when transferred back the the United Kingdom has still been the issuance of a Royal pardon from the Thai King. While hundreds of these POWs were not considered a threat by the Japanese and were used as 'guards' at Gun Club Hill Barracks and other areas, 500-600 Indian soldiers considered anti-Japanese were held at Ma Tau Chung in very unpleasant circumstances. From cramped cells to unbearable food and prison brutality, the living conditions across Thailands prisons are notorious all over the globe. 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. All POWs leaving Singapore did so from Singapores Keppel harbour which is now part of the main port authority of Singapore state. 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. The list below is not definitive, however, there is some information on every ship that it was possible to find data on immediately. Among those in jail, pleading their innocence and not yet convicted of any crime, is Jagtar Singh Johal, 32, a Scottish Sikh who lives in Dumbarton. original documents on Thailand camps (RG 24 Box 6) - Report on camps by John Slaughter (Royal Norfolk Regiment), with maps; Swiss telegrams re USS Houston survivors, list of Ameri Commander Kunito Hatakeyama, who was in direct command of the massacres, was sentenced to execution by hanging. On top of the main hatch cover, 80 men were sleeping. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google
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