Database of POW's in Japan - Interesting

Good find Kyt. Aerial views are interesting.

Jean, suspect you've have read it, but Ian Denys-Peek's "One Fourteenth of an Elephant" is an excellent, recently written book on the Thai-Burma Railway. Don't know if your Dad was involved in that but it might provide some good background info.

Cheers

Andy

 

Hello Jean

do you have your father's name and maybe some army details ?

Linden

 

Can anyone point me to a working link for this database. Interested in Cyril Thomas, my uncle.
Thank you
Lindsey

 

Sorry! Might have been taken off the air!

 

How do you access the site all i get is a page of Japanese writing. Im after information on Gunner John William Gardener Royal Artillery who died at sea 12/09/1944

 

Sorry! Might have been taken off the air!


Geoff there are lists of P.O.W. of the Japanese a Kew for anyone who can travel there. They gives name,rank, No.Unit and last camp where they were,and does list those deceased.

 

How do you access the site all i get is a page of Japanese writing. Im after information on Gunner John William Gardener Royal Artillery who died at sea 12/09/1944

There was a thread about another Royal Artillery casualty lost at sea on this date. There are also quite a few other Allied soldiers
commemorated on the Singapore memorial for this day.

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/war-sea/13182-sinking-rakuyo-maru-us-submarine-sealion.html

 

The date fits the Rakuyo Maru.
I have a File regarding enquiries made into Casualties.

 

How do you access the site all i get is a page of Japanese writing. Im after information on Gunner John William Gardener Royal Artillery who died at sea 12/09/1944

On September 4, convoy HI-72 set sail from Singapore. There were two ships carrying POWs - the Rakuyo Maru with 1317 POWs and the Kachidoki Maru with 900 POWs aboard. On the 12th of September the Rakuyo Maru was torpedoed by the US submarine Sealion at around 5:00am and the Kachidoki Maru received hits from the submarine Pampanito at around 11:00pm. The Rakuyo Maru lost 1159 POWs while more than 400 perished from the Kachidoki Maru. The Japanese rescued some of the POWs from these two ships, and all were transferred to the Kibitsu Maru and taken on to Japan. None were ever taken to Formosa. The American submarines later returned to rescue a number of British and Australian POWs


SOURCE : The Survivors

 

Phil thanks for the source. I beleive that Gardener worked on the Burma Railway before his death.

 

Phil thanks for the source. I beleive that Gardener worked on the Burma Railway before his death.

Izzy, I dont know if this is your man.

Last Name: GARDENER
First Name: A. JOHN
Rank: BDR.
Regiment: 85TH ANTI-TANK REG’T. R.A.
Camps: (HT) (KI) (KU)

SOURCE : Never Forgotten - The Story of the Taiwan POW's

HT - HEITO #3 (PingTung)
KI - KINKASEKI #1 (Chinguashi)
KU - KUKUTSU (Taipei)

 

Phil it's not him my casualty was John William Gardner 118 Field Regt R.A. His father was the Halewood village Bobby during the War years.

 

Phil it's not him my casualty was John William Gardner 118 Field Regt R.A. His father was the Halewood village Bobby during the War years.

Surname: GARDENER
First Name(s): John William
Rank: Gnr.
Service No: 1123013
Service: A
Date of Capture: 15/02/1942
Surname:GARDENERFirst Name(s):John WilliamRank:Gnr.Service No:1123013Service:ADate of Capture:15/02/1942

 

How do you access the site all i get is a page of Japanese writing

yeah I'm getting that, such a shame as I've got a few POW's I want to find info on

 

yeah I'm getting that, such a shame as I've got a few POW's I want to find info on

Sorry Guys thought Id posted the link. The only additional info seems to be the dat eof capture, and in some instances camps. The info on air crew seems to be more detailed

SOURCE : Search the online database of the Far East Prisoners of War

 

Sorry Guys thought Id posted the link. The only additional info seems to be the dat eof capture, and in some instances camps. The info on air crew seems to be more detailed

SOURCE : Search the online database of the Far East Prisoners of War

Thanks for that Phil thats great. I've found dates of capture for 20+ Portsmouth POW's. With their date of death it gives you an idea of how long they were POW's for. In some cases almost 4 years.

 

The source of the information is KEW.

Files WO 392/23 - 26 List P.O.W. Japan and Give Name Rank No. Branch of Service. Date of Capture and date of release or date of Demise. They also give Country where they were last imprisoned which in this case is Thailand.
The originals are on very thin economy paper which shows the page below.

I have copies of WO392/24 and 25 and hope to copy 26 given time. 23 is Digital and can be purchased at a price!!!".

 

Can anyone point me to a working link for this database. Interested in Cyril Thomas, my uncle.
Thank you
Lindsey

There are 3 Cyril Thomas's listed, 2 in the army and both captured on christmas day 1941. The other in the Navy.

C. Thomas's at COFEPOW database

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/pow-j/e/list/index.html

Names, ID numbers, even causes of death & Nationality
Hi, the link to the Jap-POW site does not work, it goes to a site called niffty, have they moved it, can you help,
thanks,
Chris.

 

Hi, the link to the Jap-POW site does not work, it goes to a site called niffty, have they moved it, can you help,
thanks,
Chris.

Chris, that site has been gone a long time but I "think" it was renamed and moved as "POW Research Network Japan"

Try this page page on their site for info on Deaths.