With his beautiful Thai girlfriend, he regularly attended high profile parties and entertainment events and was often seen with beautiful women. Even though one of Thailand's prisons, Bang Kwang in Bangkok, is sarcastically referred to as the Bangkok Hilton, the truth is that prison cells are no five-star hotels. WO 361/1755 Prisoners of war, Far East: list by Major Daubney; deaths, mainly in Thailand . Of 549 men alive when the ship docked, only 372 survived the war. It was this incident that prompted the famous POW rescue raids later in 1945. These men had no assurance that the Japanese would respect the persons of neutral nationals any more than they did those of the nationals of enemy countries. The Hiroshima Main Camp absorbed Zentsuji POW Camp making a total of seven main camps. Many camps were re-designated during their lifetime hence some camp names may be worded differently or even have several versions. Nazi concentration camps. Incarcerated tourists often face shocking situations and poor living conditions. Escapes among Caucasian prisoners were almost impossible because of the difficulty of men of Caucasian descent hiding in Asiatic societies, nearly all of those who attempted to escape were executed in front of their fellow POWs upon recapture, in some camps a further 10 POWs were also executed as a reprisal for the escape attempt. This was theKempeitai (Japanese military/secret police) centre for hard labour, torture and execution. Toward the end of the war, the IJA moved many of the camps in the industrial areas inland or to areas closer to the Sea of Japan because of air raids by the U.S. Air Force and in anticipation of the invasion of Japan. This series comprises three registers which record the names of some 13,500 allied prisoners of war and civilian internees of British and other nationalities. Lieutenant-Colonel Tatsuji Suga (born 22nd September 1885) was the commander of all prisoner-of-war and civilian internment camps in Borneo. Inatsuki (Yamano) Branch Camp (Fukuoka 8-B), Osarisawa (Hanawa) Branch Camp (Sendai 6-B), Hiraoka (Mitsushima) Branch Camp (Tokyo 12-B), Kumamoto Branch Camp and Fukuoka Branch Camp (Fukuoka 1-B), Kawasaki Ogimachi Branch Camp (Tokyo 2-B) (aka The Mitsui Madhouse), Nagasaki Mitsubishi Dockyard Branch Camp (Fukuoka 14-B), Fushiki Hokkai Electro-Chemical Branch Camp (Nagoya 6-D), Toyama Nippon Soda Branch Camp (Nagoya 7-D), Toyama Tateyama Heavy Industry Branch Camp (Nagoya 8-D), Toyama Nippon Express Branch Camp (Nagoya 9-D), Fushiki Sea and Land Transportation Branch Camp (Nagoya 10-D), Toyama Nippon Soda Iwase Ironworks Branch Camp (Nagoya 11-D), Niigata Sea and Land Transportation Branch Camp (Tokyo 5-B), Niihama Isoura Branch Camp (Hiroshima 2-B), Nishi Ashibetsu Branch Camp (Hakodate 4-B), Yakumo Detached Camp (Hakodate 1-Detached), Yamashita Camp see Yokohama Ship Loading Dispatched Camp (Tokyo 19-D), Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Yokohama Ship-building Dispatched Camp (Tokyo 1-D), Nippon Steel Tube Tsurumi Ship-building Dispatched Camp (Tokyo 3-D), Osaka Ship-building Yokohama Dispatched Camp (Tokyo 10-D), Nippon Steel Tube Asano Ship-building Dispatched Camp (Tokyo 13-D), Yokohama Proof-brick Dispatched Camp (Tokyo 18-D), Yokohama Ship Loading Dispatched Camp (Tokyo 19-D), Zentsuji Headquarters Camp & Zentsuji Subcamp 3 (Hiroshima area POW Camp). Nevertheless, the standard of living in the camps here and in the capital was better than that of most local Koreans. 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. Prisoners experienced severe mistreatment, and several deaths occurred. Yet, nobody can prepare people for prison food! Show more. The room was big, but not big enough for the 70 people it held. When Singapore was attacked in February 1942 Blakang Mati became a major target and the guns of were actively engaged in fighting off the Japanese attacks, even firing overland during the last three frenzied days of battle. In some camps, a large number of prisoners trying to bathe limited baths to one per week, and some POWs washed at laundry sinks or washstands or in the nearby bodies of water. list of british prisoners in thailand 21st May 2022 . Extensive data sources for those enslaved on the Burma-Siam 'death' Railway, highly recommended! Id lost touch with my family back in the UK: I couldnt ask them to support me I began to feel so isolated. This included administering an elaborate questionnaire to all prisoner of wars in Korea, interviewing prisoners and even requiring them to write essays about their attitudes towards Japan. endobj As a result, Soviet POWs were moved inward towards Germany on what were known as 'Death Marches'. The following are some examples of deaths that resulted from Allied military actions; 32 POWs of Kamaishi Branch Camp (Sendai No. A rescue attempt (as per Cabanatuan) using US Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescued 2,147 Allied servicemen and Civilians from this camp. 3, Fukuoka Camp, ( steel works ), Japan, JC /222 Mukaishima Camp, Hiroshima Group, Japan, JC /229 Kumamota No. Anyone who fell behind the march was shot or bayoneted to death, their comrades forced to bury them or be executed themselves. It is reported that least 1,000 of these inmates are foreigners normally held in Building 2.The institution is a huge prison complex housing both men and women. Ship sunk 21 September 1944 by an unidentified US submarine. The Brazil Maru travelling with the Enoura Maru carried all surviving POWs of Oryoku Maru, Later Brazil would also carry the survivors from the Enoura Maru when she too was sunk. 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. History note Cataloguer Backlog History note Catalogue date 1977-07 Object details Object associations Associated subjects Original documents Miscellaneous Documents FAR FROM HOME: More than 2,500 British nationals are locked up in prisons overseas (Image: GETTY) Almost 900 of the villains crammed into foreign hell holes are drug dealers, with 154 child sex beasts and 102 caged for immigration offences. Co-accused Anthony Flannaghan was sentenced to death by lethal injection after being convicted of possession with intent to sell. ", Arriving in Thailand in 1972, he was married to a Thai woman who died while he was inside. The smell of human faeces was so strong I wanted to vomit. The survivors were put aboard the Brazil Maru which arrived in Moji Japan, on January 29, 1945. Later still, it was a camp for refugees reaching Hong Kong from other parts of South East Asia. The Japanese Army and POW Policies: White and Asian POWs by Aiko Utsumi, 2005. Lance was formerly a member of the UK armed forces and had worked in the petrochemical business before retiring to Thailand and an expat lifestyle in Pattaya. However, living conditions were difficult. It should be noted that only in the case of Japan proper (i.e. All over Borneo hundreds and thousands of sick, weak, weary prisoners were marched on roads and paths until they fell from exhaustion, when their heads were beaten in with rifle butts and shovels, and split open with swords, and they were left to rot unburied. The UK and the country in which the British prisoner is held have the right to refuse a request as this is not an automatic right. Left Belawan Sumatra on 25/6/44 bound for Pakanbaroe Sumatra and was sunk by Submarine HMS Truculent the next day, 180 of 720 POW and 27 of 55 Japanese troops killed. They were not allowed to buy food. The rail line was built along the Khwae Noi (Kwai) River valley to support the Japanese armed forces during the Burma Campaign. Few POW camp buildings were new. Burma -Thailand 'death' railway. Brazil. Although the man suffered serious injuries and had his eyeball replaced, he was charged with "fighting back" (as per The Taiger). There were also many work accidents where POWs were injured. After the war, it became clear that there existed a high command order issued from the War Ministry in Tokyo to kill all remaining POWs. All POWs leaving Singapore did so from Singapores Keppel harbour which is now part of the main port authority of Singapore state. 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. 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. A 6,886-ton freighter on October 24, 1944, Arisan Maru was transporting 1,781 US & Allied military and civilian POWs when she was hit by a torpedo strike from an American submarine at about 5 p.m. she finally sank about 7 p.m. Only nine of the prisoners aboard survived the event -five escaped and made their way to China in one of the ship's two lifeboats. POWs were then transferred to the Tamahoko Maru which was sunk 24/6/44 in Nagasaki bay with only 212 survivors. Tha Sao 130 KM -Group 4 of D party from Singapore worked here. Sailed from Singapore on 04/7/44 to Moji, Japan via Manila (Phillipines) arriving on 13/8/44 with 609 POWs. The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. Changi and sailed from Singapore for Japan on 26 April 1943 on the. News of those held in the Dutch East Indies seems to have been withheld the longest. One significant point is that Lance and his family will not have pay the 3.3 million in fines originally imposed by the Thai court in 2015. The remaining prisoners were then transported by train to San Fernando, La Union. 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. 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. 6318 British and 2815 Australian POWs are counted within these deaths. Record of Management of Prisoners of War, Japan Prisoner of War Bureau. 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). He was sentenced to death. At some periods up to 5,000 POWs were housed here: these camps acted as transit & despatch sites for POW work parties. Located 4 km south (along the coast towards Singapore). The paperless archive (has detailed reports of many camps): . Carried 1100 POWs from Singapore to Moji (Japan) on 30/10/42. However the fear of Aids encourages many of them to be monogamous. 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This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. The Yuzan Maru was a US-made freighter. endobj endobj No communication with the other prisoners was authorized, and negotiations undertaken with the object of altering this state of things were not successful. The Japanese cut off the water supply to the toilets, leaving the prisoners with no toilet facilities. After the fall of Singapore 50,000 British and other Empire troops were gathered there, but very quickly work details gathered several thousand men from Changi and these were sent to various projects on Sumatra, Burma, and Thailand and other Japanese occupied territories. James Morris is a pename for an international writer based in Bangkok who works on various international news media. Around 1500 servicemen & women were captured in South Sumatra and many were taken onto Singapore. Meanwhile, Thailand's Public Health Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, says officials are ready to approve the registration of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine after meeting with representatives of its Asian distributor, Zuellig Pharma. 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. Sometimes they were thrown into very small cells without food. THAILAND 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. The POWs declined offers to blindfold. The National Archive has a large number (56,000 not a complete set) of: Japanese POW index cards 1942-1945 within its collections (not digital) these are held in Catalogue WO345. 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. Sailed from Singapore to Manila on 04/7/44 with 1287 POWs on board arriving 15 days later. 18 0 obj 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. POWs never left the ship until September 2, 1944. RELATED: Tourists Face 10 Years In Prison For Vandalising Ancient Wall In Thailand. Some of this is in English however many significant parts are in Japanese. In 1943 a work party from Java joined the POWs mainly for the construction of new airfields near Talangbetutu, 15 Km north of Palembang. He was really dead. Sailed from Takao Taiwan on 22/8/44 bound for Japan (Unspecified port)arriving 8 days later with 707 POWs on board. Visiting prisoners in the Bangkok Hilton. 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. About 40 per cent were missionaries from 22 different denominations, some who had recently fled China and organized a language school in Baguio. *3 Australian war memorial archiveshttps://www.awm.gov.au/events/conference/2002/degroen.asp. The camp commandants often refused to reply to questions put to them. Many of the fortifications, such as Fort Saint Elmo and Fort Ricasoli, were also used as prisons at some point. 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. The following sites are all very highly recommended for further specific research. 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. 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. After a battle lasting nearly 3 months in the Bataan region of the Philippines the US garrison surrendered. <> And I know that if it wasnt for them, a difficult situation may have become an impossible one. She revealed that while walking past a flower shop on Valentines Day recently, a young girl presented her with rose for her son. There are some RAF Nominal Rolls from Changi which were made in 1944 from the National Archives reference AIR 40/1899, these are very fragile and seem to be falling apart, unfortunately. 14) by an air raid and seven were killed by the A-Bomb in Nagasaki Mitsubishi Ship-Building Branch Camp (Fukuoka No. It displaced 5,065 tons, was 405 ft (123 m) long, 53 ft (16 m) wide, and 27.2 ft (8.3 m) deep. The Japanese 'encouraged' these men to join the Indian National Liberation Army, but met with little success. Despite the heat, there were two taps to collect water from, and each prisoner was limited to one quart of water (approximately 0.95 litres) for consumption and washing each day. More than 12,000 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and tens of thousands of forced labourers perished during its construction. Many prisoners in Klong Prem are drug addicts. The number of deaths which occurred when Japanese "hell ships"unmarked transport ships in which POWs were transported in harsh conditionswere attacked by US and Royal Navy submarines were particularly high. <> Forces and returned to the United States. 10/1/43 1000 Dutch transported from Java to Moulmein but sunk 15/1/43 in the Andaman sea with 961 survivors. Some POWs testified that they had never received any pay in any form. The Changi Peninsula had been the British Army's principal base area in Singapore. Sailed from Celebes to Kendari on 10/1/44 with 9 POWs on board. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. DeKlerk (AKA Imbari Maru/Imaji maru, De Clerk). At one point, when Lance first arrived at Klong Prem, the young man was also reported to be suffering from chronic tooth decay from poor nourishment and stress. His brother says he is innocent and claims he was tortured in detention. Prisoners are forced to live in horrendous conditions and constant fear. 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). Many of the others sentenced with me died before the sentence was carried out because they became so ill. "The normal execution was with three bursts of nine bullets from a machine-gun and you would hear it being carried out," said Mr Davies, who has a son, daughter and ex-wife in Britain. Had he not committed suicide, Suga would certainly have been found guilty of war crimes and executed. to be used by the Japanese Armed Forces in the occupied areas. What will new British PM Liz Truss do on LGBTQ+ issues? His return home was welcomed by Fair Trials Abroad which campaigned for his release. March - October 1943. The UK man was jailed for 50 years in Thailand in June 2015, after being caught in August 2014 attempting to sell 200 ecstasy pills to an undercover informant for the Thai police at a car park outside a supermarket in Pattaya. The Bangka Island massacre took place on 16 February 1942, when Japanese soldiers machine-gunned 22 Australian military nurses to death with only one survivor. Burma-Siam Railway list of prisoner of war work camps in Thailand during the construction of the death railway, with diagram. The gun batteries on Blakang Mati were later destroyed or deliberately broken up to prevent them from falling into Japanese hands. After the Australians refused to sign any agreement the Japanese crammed some 15,000 men, including the British POWs from the Changi camp, into the Selerang Barracks which was originally intended for a maximum of 1200 men on 2 September 1942. endobj Both prisoners had their sentences confirmed by the Thai Appeals Court in September 2016 when they both appeared before the court shackled together. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 595.56 842.04] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Relatives of British POWs who were in Changi POW Camp, Singapore may like to know that The National Archives in Kew, London - have 58,000 POW index cards in 50 or so boxes. Paul was living in Thailand, happily married with a young son, running a successful business. list of british prisoners in thailand. Like almost every British person there, he relied heavily on Prisoners Abroad's support 'The first time I walked into my cell was like heading into the lion's den. As prisoners tried to escape the flames they were then bayoneted or shot down. At Sandakan and Ranau and Brunei, North Borneo, batches of prisoners in fifties and sixties were marched out to dig their graves, then shot or bayoneted and pushed into the graves, many before they were dead. The registers give minimal information about each prisoner which may include registration card number and dispersal information. There were three kinds of camps; branch, detached and dispatched camps. As in Noguchis welcoming speech and subsequent addresses, it would also appear that there was a concerted effort to convince prisoners of the legitimacy of Japanese war aims and to canvass prisoner opinion about the Japanese people and the outcome of the war. ; Presidente Bernardes Provisional Readaptation Center (Presidente Bernardes, So Paulo, Brazil) - inspired by the Supermax standards, although prisoners can only stay there for a maximum of 2 years. Debbie, his mother, herself alluded to this on. In normal times the prison would house 800 prisoners but at one point during the war, it had ten times that. Ex Burma Railway POW Jack Jennings book prisoner without a crime noted: The POWs lived in huts about a hundred feet long with wooden sleeping platforms that could accommodate up to 150 POWs. Repairs were carried out by POW labour and by April the wooden trestle bridge was back in operation. 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. We add around 200,000 new records each month. Brutal inmates often target foreigners and subject them to abuse. 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. Junsaburo Toshino, former Lieutenant and Guard Commandant aboard the hell ship were found guilty of murdering and supervising the murder of at least 16 men and sentenced to death as a Class B war criminal at Yokohama. The last days & liberation of the camp are written HERE. After an exchange of salutes between the POWs and their senior officers, the firing squad opened fire. 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. Conditions in Thai prisons are some of the worlds most notorious. =) A$~ 9bX\iM+F!Z^B+F!Zv;Dvsod12xC!}k5$NP[3gR`@ezl?> : {}d_sKLG|{_eB5GC u(/v&CzVw8s%&"NRD0JEK (.8z:6>")RN9m!Zq>1XRBXE |RKyFSk2?'(bl-p{ After the Japanese surrender, Argyle Street Camp became a centre for displaced people returning to Hong Kong. Brutal inmates often target foreigners and subject them to abuse. CHANGI POW CAMP was opened after Singapore's fall on February 15th 1942 and was the main camp for the captured British and Commonwealth forces. The Japanese army decided its construction was vital as it was too dangerous to ship armed forces, goods and materials by sea and run the risk of US submarines (see the Hellships section to note the very high number sunk by Allied forces submarines during this period). The excellent ThaiVisa.com discussion forum reposts a 2004 Associated Press article about visiting prisoners . The ship was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sank. Two U.S. army nurses were among the internees. 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. Some camps even provided POWs with small amounts of tobacco. Sailed from Singapore to Taiwan departed 5/6/44 with 800 POWs. But I had no doubt Prisoners Abroad knew what I was going through. Also organised trips to Thailand twice a year. She describes the whole journey, in one Facebook post, as the will of God which she and her son try to accept. They were forced to engage in the hard labour of constructing railways, roads, airfields, etc. Ordinarily, the POWs carried a lunch box to work, and in some cases, the companies provided food for the POWs. Occupied originally by British POWs from F Force who had left Changi (Singapore) in April 1943. The FCO, who claim to be fighting against the sentence, said: The British Government takes a strong and principled stance against the death penalty. sailed from Singapore on 16 May 43. Sailed from Hong Kong to Japan (Moji) via Taiwan in December 1943 carrying 500 POWs. The prisoners of war allocated to this force were all sick men, with Diptheria and dysentery amongst other illnesses. Also caged overseas is Stephen Wilcox, 50, who got 33 years for a 1.3kg heroin conspiracy in Thailand in 2009. Furthermore, the Japanese Government had been very negligent in keeping records of such historical facts during the war. This was a special camp where the POWs captured by the Navy were held before they were transferred to Army control. <> The shots wounded the four but did not kill them. Lance and the family must now wait for word from the UK and Thai authorities. Sister Bullwinkel was later captured again and spent the rest of the war in captivity. 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, , , , , , , , , , . 13 & 3 Camp, Cherison, Bandoeng, Java, JC /255 1 Allied Group Hospital, Lyceum, Bandoeng, Java, JC /156 Taiping Jail Perak ( amalgamated with ) Ipoh, Malaya, JC /288 Ipoh ( amalagamated with JC /156 ), Malaya, JC /296 Sungei Bulow, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, JC /316 Oesapa Bezar, Timor, Netherlands East Indies, JC /313 Los Banos and Santo Tomas Camps, Manila, Philippines, JC /1 Kanburi, Kanchanaburi, Khan Buri, Siam, JC /2 Pungyisho ( south of Tarsao ), Siam, JC /5 152 kilo railway camp, Hintock River Camp, Siam, JC /26 Tamuang,Taenvang, Tam Wang, Siam, JC /27 Wanyei, North Tarsao, 125 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /34 Takelin, 101 kiol railway camp, Siam, JC /40 Linson, 202.5 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /42 Kanyu, 140 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /48 Pran Kashi, 208 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /49 Tarkenun, 203 kilo railway camp and 211 kilo, Swinton's Camp, Siam, JC /50 Tampii, Arrahill, Jungle Camp, Siam, JC /53 227 kilo railway camp and 245 kilo, Siam, JC /55 Vajiravugh College, Bangkok, Siam, JC /56 Takanon, 228 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /61 Klikrie, Klien Kli, Tarkenum, 240 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /62 Ladya Railway Suppy Camp, Kanburi to Tarsao Road, Siam, JC /70 Bankow, Bangkao, 96 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /71 Wampo South, 110 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /72 245 kilo railway camp and 227 kilo, Siam, JC /81 Rin Tin, 82 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /86 Tampii Camp, 147 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /96 North Wamps, Wamps, 114 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /99 Lampoe, 32 kilo north of Chieng-Mai, Siam, JC /126 230 kilo railway camp and 245 kilo, Siam, JC /133 Tamajo, 229 kilo railway camp, and 234, and 239 kilo, Siam, JC /137 Kachu Lu, Katchu Mountain Camp, Siam, JC /143 Bangan Camp, 9 kilo north of Brencasi, Siam, JC /159 Tarkenun,Swinton's Camp, 230 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /164 Tarrua, 102 kilo railway camp, Siam, JC /178 Tagerry ( Burma/Siam border ), Siam, JC /190 Bontilon Camp, ( on Wampo to Tavoy Rd ), Bonti, Siam, JC /3 Kranji No. 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. There, about 1,000 of the survivors were loaded on another Japanese ship, the Enoura Maru, while the rest boarded the smaller Brazil Maru. When POWs wanted to spend money, they received cash from the POW officer and shopped outside the camp accompanied by a Japanese guard. Sailed from Singapore to Moji, Japan departing on 6/9/44 and arriving in Japan with 900 POWs on board. The Embassy can facilitate the registration process with Note: Hellships were frequently renamed or known by other names -AKA in these listings means 'also known as'. The barracks buildings were overcrowded and many had to live in makeshift tents in the Square. He claimed he had been framed. 10 0 obj This has been published in the Royal Gazette of Thailand on 05 . Sailed from Singapore on 01/05/43 carrying Indian POWs. The 212 survivors of the Tamahoko Maru were brought into the harbour at Nagasaki and onto the POW camp, Fukuoka 13. The Japanese appointed Elmer Herod as leader of the internees. Akikase was later torpedoed and sunk on 03/11/44 by the US submarine USS Pintado. Of the 267 Australians onboard only 72 survived. The POWs were already in weak condition before embarkation, and they had to endure terrible conditions while aboard the transport ships (hell ships'). Son Nguyen is an international writer and news commentator specialising in Thai news and current affairs. On October 24th 1944 Commander E. N. Blakely spotted the unmarked Arisan Maru through his periscope on the USS Shark submarine. They were reunited with U.S. The result of this was that International Red Cross Committee delegates were able to visit only 43 camps and Protecting Power representatives only, whereas there were (at the end of the war) 102 camps in Japan, Formosa, Korea, and Manchuria alone. There, about 1,000 of the survivors were loaded on another Japanese ship, the Enoura Maru, while the rest boarded the smaller Brazil Maru. A key theme in Debbies online pronouncements is religion and the support it offers both her and her son in what appears to be hellish situation. In some camps, they had bread once a day. They expressed their thankfulness for having escaped from the semi-starvation of their internment camps, as well as their anxiety for the health of those they had left behind in Japanese custody. Torpedoed by USS Seahorse the next day on 21/1/44. The group of prisoners was then moved to San Fernando, Pampanga. Although Japanese registers the majority of the information is given in English. Once a day, youd be given a meal. 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. Kachidoki Maru (AKA Kakko maru/President Harrison). <> In April 1945, the camp military districts were reorganized and three new POW Camps were established in Sendai, Nagoya, and Hiroshima. 1 0 obj Two nurses were killed in the bombing, nine were last seen drifting away from the ship on a raft and were never heard from again, and the rest reached the shore at Bangka Island, in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Lance is lucky that he is not being held at Bang Kwang Prison also known infamously as the Bangkok Hilton which is reputed to be Thailand harshest jail. One New Zealander who worked on the BurmaThailand railway received 126 letters, another only three. <> Lieutenant Kenichi Nakagawa was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. endobj 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. _L ]aQuV%^+[v`w`T[0Y?Zl.f5q^IYHm>_*WXB=5C4?AFdM$V8KeY=ZV^ADce_Gb=iDZ1OABh}[wK,NUcn$Ys'&>WX=fd5BkqE$Z/VVIigLA6FUWA6&koB:XXpJXW[kFt5$E.4+%=wN[XH }kvqX0=]n=n b+\O 6>q &F p When I dared to look again, my worst thoughts were confirmed. In the early hours of the 16th September, she hit a mine north of Labuan, listed quickly to port and sank. On arrival at Mojio, the POWs were split & sent to Moji & Kobe camps. Nicknamed the Benjo Maru as Benjo means toilet -due to the number of POWs suffering dysentery on board. In 2016, one of Lances legal team, Jeffrey Stevens,suggested that it may be possible to get the residual prison term down to 10 years by working with the UK Foreign Office. 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. 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. Two British prisoners including 'drug dealer' sent home from Thailand do NOT have coronavirus, tests confirm. Sunk by US submarine USS Whale (SS-329) on 17/2/43 on a voyage from Saipan to Truk with 900 POWs aboard. Even though there are prison shops, queues are huge, and some prisoners dont have enough to get snacks and additional products. On September 7, 1944, the hell ship SS Shinyo Maru was attacked by the submarine USS Paddle. At mid-morning, the ships officer returned with about twenty Japanese soldiers. Used to ferry 1287 British, Dutch & Australian POWs including RAF from Singapore leaving on 4th July 1944. It was only two years into Lances prison term at Klong Prem prison had begun and the loving father had hoped that the sentence would be reduced. Most main camps had sub-camps near workplaces: all POWs under Japanese control were required to work irrespective of rank- most large camps had as many as 12 subcamps. The ship left Singapore on the 5th September 1944 en route to Manila via Borneo, arriving in Miri on the 11th picking up supplies and human cargo and leaving again on the 15th. He commenced working with the Thai Examiner News Desk in May 2018. Billy was held in Chiang Mai. Around 27,000 Filipinos and 2,200 Americans died at Camp O'Donnell. 2 bridges were constructed across the river although both were bombed successfully during the war (not sabotaged by commandos/special forces, however!). % However the track was sold to Thai Railways and the 130 km Ban PongNamtok section re-laid and is in use today.". 14). Wales Maru (AKA Weills Maru and Byoki Maru). This was not enough to keep the Japanese at bay and the British surrendered on 15 February 1942. A 17,000-ton transport ship sunk by the submarine USS Gudgeon 28 April 1943 at 10-18N, 121-44E, Ship sunk by USS Sailfish (SS-192) 4 December 1943. A complete roster for POWs transported on this ship can be found on the website www.lindavdahl.com. Two torpedoes hit the hull of the ship which sank, killing several hundred American, Dutch and Filipino servicemen. Grashio and his squadron commander, Lieutenant Ed Dyess, eight other Americans, and two Filipinos escaped from a work camp in Davao Region, the Philippinesinto the jungle on Sunday, April 4, 1943. Primarily a hospital POW camp it housed around 7,500 POWs mostly the US. Many prisoners, including tourists, are forced to fight for their freedom, a practice that dates back to the 18th century when the Burmese people defeated Thailands old capital Ayutthaya. Something went wrong, please try again later. Situated in Kowloon district, this camp was the largest in Hong Kong and the main place where both professional soldiers and the Hong Kong volunteer defence corps were imprisoned during the Japanese occupation. 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. Bang Kwang is a grim place holding long term prisoners, and is where the death sentence is carried out on rare occasions. Sailed back from Manila to Japan on 20/9/44 with 1289 POWs. Tarsau (Nam Tok) - 131 KM from Non Pladuk II, 284 KM from Thanbyuzayat. Ireland had 222 British offenders in jail, while Australia housed 144. Cruelly & ironically the Japanese frequently painted supply ships with Red Crosses, yet did not do the same for those vessels that deserved these markings. The Japanese transferred most of the prisoners to other areas, leaving just over 500 seriously ill American and other Allied POWs and civilians in the prison. The prisoners resorted to digging trenches in the parade grounds as latrines. There are many incidents of particular barbarity within the 3 years+ of Japanese captivity, here are a few of the more infamous. One of the other Americans was USMC Lt. who had organized the escape. Despite the physical support they were giving me, the pressure of life inside had quite an effect on my mental health. endobj He has done wrong, but there is a reason he got mixed up in all that, everything that was going on, she said. %PDF-1.5 Allied POW camps and ship-transports were sometimes accidental targets of Allied attacks. Suzuya Maru (AKA Otaro Maru/Op ten Noort), 20/10/42 1600 Dutch POWs transported to Moulmein from Java, Tamahoko Maru (AKA Yone Maru/Tamahoko Maru). Changi was not just one camp but up to seven prisoner-of-war (POW) and internee camps. Though many people fly to Thailand to have more fun for less money, not many tourists realize that the Kingdom of Thailand is a country with strict rules and Buddhist ethics. Lance is lucky that he is not being held at Bang Kwang Prison alsoknown infamously as the Bangkok Hilton which is reputed to be Thailand harshest jail. At the Konan camp, some of the work was physically harder, such as stoking carbide furnaces. They are treated the worst of all. Opened in 1941, this housed 3,700 allied civilians released by US Rangers and Filipino Guerrillas on February 3rd 1945. There are also several records of the civilian internees kept at the Changi Museum's website. A few POWs did technical work and demonstrated their excellent technical skills. There is no guarantee that Lance Whitmore will be transferred back to the United Kingdom immediately although authorities do seem to be moving quite quickly with his case. This ship was used for several POW voyages including the delivery of Fepows to Fukuoka camp via the port of Moji in 1942/3. Punishments were severe even for slight infractions of the rules. De Brug - The Bridge on the River Kwai (Khwae-Toi). It is the Thai authorities who must ultimately agree the terms as the prison sentences were imposed by Thai courts under Thai law. WO356 and WO357 both cover war crimes by the Imperial Japanese army and navy. JC/69 Bicycle Camp Gang, Ambon, Amboina, Ambon Group, JC/75 Amahi, Ambon, Amboina, Beram Is, Ambon Group, JC/111 Ambon, Ambon Group, Haroekoe Isle, Ambon Group, JC /115 Kuching, Sarawak, ( Sawmill/Jetty) Borneo, JC /17 Mergui, Kirikhan Road, (jungle road) Burma, JC /93 Longi, Ronsu, 62-kilo railway camp, Burma, JC /100 Anankurin, Anaquin, Amankwin, Burma Railway, Burma, JC /123 Apalon, Umbron, 83-kilo railway camp, Burma, JC /199 Kunbuitkway, 25-kilo railway camp, Burma, JC /230 Wagele, 8-kilo railway camp, Burma, JC /231 Massale, 70-kilo railway camp, Burma, JC /232 108 kilo railway camp, Burma ( on the border with Siam ), JC /271 Mezali, 75-kilo railway camp, Burma, JC /327 Kando, Kandaw, Hospital Transit Camp, Burma, JC /259 Weinsen Internment Camp, Shantung Province, China, JC /37 Saigon, Saigon Docks, French Indo China, JC /68 Fumi, Phumy, Saigon Camp, French Indo China, JC /91 Lienkhang, Saigon, French Indo China, JC /168 Fumi Camp, No.1 Camp Fumi, nr Saigon, French Indo China, JC /224 Song Long Song Camp, French Indo China, JC /43 Kinkaseki, No. Sailed from Wewak, New Guinea on 17th March 1943 to Kavieng, New Ireland/Rabaul. Changi was liberated by troops of the 5th Indian Division on 5 September 1945 and within a week troops were being repatriated. Shuske Wada, whose charges paralleled those of Toshino, was the official interpreter for the guard group. G-Japan leftChangi and sailed from Singapore for Japan on 26 April 1943 on theKyokko Maru. Up to 8,000 POWs were housed in this, the largest camp in the Philippines. The ship then sailed from Manila on 11/10/44 to an unspecified port in Japan with 1800 Pows. 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. Allied Officers were sent to oversee the transfer of the POWs from the Japanese Army. An excellent resource of specific hell ship information, including voyage dates and number of POWs, carried. Burma Railway, also called Burma-Siam Railway, railway built during World War II connecting Bangkok and Moulmein (now Mawlamyine), Burma (Myanmar). Most subcamps were also known by the employing industry name: i.e. A set of 3 ships carried around 2200 POWs to Moji however. However, on January 9th, the Enoura Maru was bombed and disabled while in harbour, killing about 350 men. Before the death of his girlfriend and the drugs bust, he was a recognisable figure about the town with his friend Jake Mostraini living what many young twenty something western foreigners would consider a dream lifestyle in Thailand. There are no nominal lists currently known of those who worked and died on this railway, however: 6,982 casualties are commemorated in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery (also known as Don-Rak cemetery) 129Km north of Bangkok. Both ships reached Takao (Kaohsiung) 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. The remaining prisoners were then transported by train to La Union. To-151 Kamioka Prison (Gummyoji) Yokohama. *The so-called'INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY',was an armed force formedto secure Indian independence with Japaneseassistance and was largely, at this time, composed of ex Indian (British) army soldiers captured with the other commonwealth troops. Similar to the hellish conditions on the Bataan Death March, prisoners were often crammed into cargo holds with little air, food or water for journeys that could last weeks. However, there are also cells in the prison which hold up to 5 people with a small toilet area. He has spent nearly 19 months in an Indian prison accused of being connected to the murders of a number of Hindu nationalists. list of british prisoners in thailand list of british prisoners in thailand. Due to poor sanitation, lice and fleas plagued POWs, and there was danger of spreading infectious diseases. He revealed that he traveled regularly to the prison to bring his son food and expressed himself worried about his sons physical and mental condition. The POWs were supposed to be able to communicate with their family at home through the International Red Cross under certain conditions. 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. Almost 900 of the villains crammed into foreign hell holes are drug dealers, with 154 child sex beasts and 102 caged for immigration offences. provided a list (called the "Yellow List") naming 73 camp locations, less than half the actual number of camps -- POW relief supply drops (4,470 tons) covered a total of 158 camp sites in Japan. The ship was later sunk by US aircraft whilst carrying IJN personnel near Mindoro Island in the Philippines. A type of military secret police, also largely responsible for counter-espionage activities. Three other Japanese officers were executed for mistreatment of POWs and/or civilians on other occasions, during 194245 and General Ito was sentenced to death that same year for war crimes committed in other parts of the Pacific. Intestinal diseases soon developed. Liberation came between the 24th and 30th August 1945 when the POWs were transported to Pekanbaru, although too late for the near quarter of all allied POWs who died from disease, malnutrition, starvation and brutality. All the prisoners were returned to their original barracks afterwards. Listed as an Imperial Japanese Navy gunboat and also as a freighter by different sources: sunk on 12/1/44. I was thousands of miles away from home, and it really felt like it. He said his son had witnessed two stabbings and an attempted rape up to that point while imprisoned there. POWs died at a rate of up to fifty per day. It was a place of starvation, torture and terror, a place of madness and, for many, death. 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. As stated earlier, the moral worth of the crime weighs the most, and even minor crimes can be punished severely. its the last stop. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (I) (1959) A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan. The Cabanatuan prison camp was named after the nearby city of 50,000 people (locals also called it Camp Pangatian, after a small nearby village). River Valley Camp/Havelock Road camp (Malai 3). The most notorious use of forced labour was in the construction of the BurmaThailand 'Death Railway'. Object details Category Books . The Allied governments began negotiations for a second exchange almost immediately, but only the United States and Canada succeeded in reaching an agreement with the Japanese authorities. There were 2 camps at Inrin, one was a temporary camp. Sailed from Singapore to Moji (Japan) departed 21/10/43 with 1155 POWs. Carried 74 officers and government officials of the Dutch East Indies from Singapore to Formosa departing January 10th & taking 26 days in 1943. le nom de verbe offrir; description d'une foret qui fait peur; graves d'ardonneau tarifs; pronote lyce romain rolland ivry sur seine; htel formule 1 auch Prison food is not only tasteless and limited but often infested, and incarcerated tourists are forced to eat maggots to survive. A harrowing account of the sinking and murder of many POWs is found in the book Ships from Hell: Japanese War Crimes on the High Seas in World War II By Raymond Lamont-Brown. 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He expressed his frustration with the support from the UK Embassy at the time and lashed out at the conditions that his son was being held in at Klong Prem. It is interesting to note the suffix Maru this was a common addition to ships name meaning beloved and was intended to protect the ships from exterior harm. As a result, the Japanese Navy established Ofuna Transitory Prison Camp in Ofuna, Kanagawa Prefecture. Generally, the Japanese guards were responsible for providing rice and other ingredients for meals, and the POWs took turns preparing the food. Not all camps had the same regime; some were far stricter than others often very much to the point of brutality so dont be too surprised to hear of vastly differing experiences. The organisation of POW camps in Japan was repeatedly reformed and rearranged, so the main camps, branch camps, dispatched camps and detached camps opened during the war numbered about 130. 5) were killed when the U.S. Battleships bombarded Kamaishi City 22 were killed in Kawasaki Ogimachi Branch Camp (Tokyo No. It is quite a different picture from September 2016 when the Thai Appeals Court upheld the UK mans 50 year sentence. 1600+ British POWs arrived here on May 20th 1943 from a 300-mile march from Ban Pong. The men were regarded as not fit enough to be transferred to working areas but were shipped out of Changi anyway on 13 trains with no ventilation and little food or water. 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. Sailed from Singapore to Moji (Japan) with 1500 POWs on 25/4/43. 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