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Author | : Judy Balcombe |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2023-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1399067192 |
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The Evacuation of Singapore to the Prison Camps of Sumatra aims to describe the events prior to, during and after the Fall of Singapore and the ways in which former prisoners are remembered on Bangka Island today. It is the product of many years of detailed historical research, interviews with camp survivors and personal experiences discovering and locating the former Japanese civilian prison camp sites of Bangka Island and Southern Sumatra. Judy's aim has been to compile an accurate description of the fate of evacuees from Singapore who were bombed and killed in the South China Sea and Bangka Strait or imprisoned in harsh Japanese civilian prison camps. Many families have not known the fate of their relatives until contacting the author through the Muntok Peace Museum website http://muntokpeacemuseum.org. The Peace Museum was established by prisoners’ families in 2015. The author has also described her many visits to Bangka Island and Sumatra in detail so others may follow in her footsteps and know that their relatives who were imprisoned and died during WW2 are now remembered very respectfully in the small town of Muntok. Annual Memorial Services are held each February 16, attended by families and the Australian, New Zealand and British Embassies. All royalties to this book will be donated to the Muntok Red Cross in memory of the prisoners.
Author | : Judy Balcombe |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2023-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1399067176 |
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The Evacuation of Singapore to the Prison Camps of Sumatra aims to describe the events prior to, during and after the Fall of Singapore and the ways in which former prisoners are remembered on Bangka Island today. It is the product of many years of detailed historical research, interviews with camp survivors and personal experiences discovering and locating the former Japanese civilian prison camp sites of Bangka Island and Southern Sumatra. Judy's aim has been to compile an accurate description of the fate of evacuees from Singapore who were bombed and killed in the South China Sea and Bangka Strait or imprisoned in harsh Japanese civilian prison camps. Many families have not known the fate of their relatives until contacting the author through the Muntok Peace Museum website http://muntokpeacemuseum.org. The Peace Museum was established by prisoners’ families in 2015. The author has also described her many visits to Bangka Island and Sumatra in detail so others may follow in her footsteps and know that their relatives who were imprisoned and died during WW2 are now remembered very respectfully in the small town of Muntok. Annual Memorial Services are held each February 16, attended by families and the Australian, New Zealand and British Embassies. All royalties to this book will be donated to the Muntok Red Cross in memory of the prisoners.
Author | : Joseph Kennedy |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 1989-11-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349203637 |
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Author | : William H. McDougall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher Terence Ryan |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2021-10-24 |
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Download A Child Prisoner of War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An account of my father, Thomas Ryan's experiences as a young teenage seaman with Canadian Pacific ships during WW2; his being sunk in the Atlantic by a German bomber; rescued by the Royal Navy's HMS Tatar; then sunk again off Singapore by the Japanese on troopship RMS Empress of Asia and his subsequent time as a POW in Changi and Sime Road camps until the war ended. His return to education in the secret prison camp school, his working in the camp hospital, and the awakening of a desire to study medicine. HIs post-war enrolment in Liverpool University and subsequent qualification as a medical practitioner.
Author | : Rory Laird |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526771144 |
Download From Shanghai to the Burma Railway Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Richard Laird’s previously unpublished record of his wartime experience as a Japanese prisoner of war ranks among the most graphic of this shocking and deservedly popular genre. Captured after fighting in the Malayan Campaign he was incarcerated in Changi before being drafted as slave labour with ‘F’ Force on the notorious Burma Railway. He was one of only 400 out of 1600 to survive Songkurai No 2 Camp, despite disease and terrible hardship. His moving memoir begins with a rare description of ex-patriate life in 1930’s Shanghai with the Sino-Japanese war raging around the European cantonments. An additional dimension to his story is the developing relationship between the author and Bobbie Coupar Patrick to whom he became engaged shortly before the fall of Singapore. Bobbie’s letters graphically described her dramatic escape to Australia and work for Force 136. They were reunited in Colombo, Ceylon and their son has been instrumental in compiling this exceptional record. Three appendices round off this superb book including the official report on the hardships and losses suffered by ‘F’ Force.
Author | : William H. McDougall Jr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258441661 |
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Author | : Ian W. Shaw |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466825960 |
Download On Radji Beach Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When Singapore fell dramatically to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, hundreds of people scrambled to leave. Amongst the evacuees were 65 Australian nurses who boarded coastal freighter "Vyner Brooke" which Japanese bombers sank. The largest group of nurses that made it to shore gathered at Radji Beach. Eventually the shipwreck survivors surrendered to the Japanese rather than slowly starve to death. The Japanese did not accept their surrender and divided the Europeans into three groups and killed all in turn. The Australian nurses were in the third group, and 21 of them died in a hail of bullets as they walked into the waters off the beach. There was one survivor, Vivian Bullwinkel, and she went on to survive the various camps and diseases that took away several of her friends.
Author | : John Grehan |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783462124 |
Download Far East Air Operations 1942-1945 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Despatches in this volume include Air Operations in Burma and Bay of Bengal 1 January to 22 May 1942 by General Wavell, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia November 1943 to May 1944, by Air Chief Marshal Sir R.E.C. Peirse, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia from June 1944 to May 1945, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, and the despatch on air operations in South East Asia between May 1945 and September 1945, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park.??This unique collection of original documents will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians, students and all those interested in what was one of the most significant periods in British military history.
Author | : Boudewijn van Oort |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Dutch |
ISBN | : 9781425151591 |
Download Tjideng Reunion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Two Dutch families leave South Africa for Java, motivated by patriotism. Caught in the events of WWII, they are interned, emerging four years later as refugees, to make a new life in a changed world.