by Damien Lewis
23. Finally I would like to say how much the British Contingent in Atjah appreciated the great organizing ability and general efficiency of Capt. J.J.A. Van der Lande and his S.M.O. Capt. Linggen (Royal N.E.I. Army) in particulary in connection with medical matters the work done by Sergt. Major Bougels (R.N.E.I. Army) is worthy of the highest praise.
(SGD) L.R.T. HERMAN
Lieutenant, R.N.V.R.
Index
Alexander, Commander Robert 176, 179, 183
Amah family, Hankow 61, 69
American Mission Hospital, Wuhu 33, 71–72
Anckorn, Fergus vii, xx–xxi
Antenor, HMS 252
Antis xiii–xiv
Bangka Island, Sumatra 89
Banno, Colonel 134, 138–39, 141–42, 148–49, 151, 154, 163, 165, 167–68, 188–89, 191
Bee, HMS 10, 13, 38–39, 41, 49, 55–59, 77
Beijing, China
see Peking, China
“Black Corporal” (Korean guard) 209–13, 216, 219–21
Blackie (Judy’s puppy) 165–66
Boardman, Tom xvii
Boniface, Able Seaman “Bonny” 62–63, 65–68, 74–75, 78
Bonzo (HMS Ladybird’s dog) 33–34
Bozdech, Robert xiii, xiv
Burma xvi, 167, 197, 199, 233
Burton, Lieutenant 88
Campbeltown, HMS 146
“Catcher” (Camp 7 prisoner) 244, 248
Chiang Kai-shek 26, 52
Chianghsing 72–73
Chinese Armed Forces 41, 52, 70–71
Chinese communist rebels 26
Churchill, Winston 79, 82, 97, 143, 199
Cooper, Able Seaman Jan “Tankey” 14, 16, 25, 27–28, 34, 39, 44, 46–49, 54, 59, 62, 191
Cotterrall, Stanley 71
Cousens, Private “Cobbler” 141–45, 152, 157, 191
Cricket, HMS 10, 13, 55
Crowley, Captain 72
Dabo, Singkep 109
Davis, Wing Commander Patrick 198, 224, 242–43
Devani, Jock 112, 114–18, 121, 124, 127–128, 131, 136, 138, 152, 161, 170–73, 176, 180, 186, 187, 200, 212, 217, 232, 241, 244, 252
Dickin Medal xiii–xiv, 256
Dobson, Sergeant Major 151
Doi, Lieutenant 242, 243
Dragonfly, HMS 77–78, 83, 85–95, 105, 106–7, 111, 124, 158, 209, 268–70, 272, 275–76
Duffy, Captain George 225–26, 227, 247, 252, 263
“Dutchy” (Dutch Administrator in Singkep) 109–12
Francis Garnier and crew (French gunboat) 28, 62–63, 65–68
Giang Bee 85
Gloegoer One POW camp 133–36, 139–47, 159–69, 208–9
Gloegoer One POW camp (continued)
Christmas (1942) 155
escape plans 147–48
forced labor 137, 147, 155–57
Judy smuggled out of 171, 172–75
Red Cross parcels 151–54
solitary confinement 138–39
White Man’s Mountain 155–57, 160
see also Banno, Colonel; Nissi, Captain
Gloegoer Two POW family camp 165
Gnat and crew, HMS 10–31, 33–39, 40–46, 48–49, 52–55, 58–63, 65–66, 68–71, 73–78, 162, 191, 211
Goodyear, Chief Petty Officer Charles 58–59, 84
Gordon, Captain 186
Grasshopper and crew, HMS 77–80, 83–85, 87–95, 97–99, 101, 103–5, 107, 109–11, 123–24, 126, 158, 184, 191, 221, 258
attacked by Japanese warplanes 89–95
shipwrecked 97–107
Greenburgh, “Tubby” 60
Grenville, HMS 107
Guam, USS 72
Hackbridge Quarantine Kennels 255
Haines, Lieutenant R. 13
Hankow, China 42–49, 59–70, 72–74
Hankow Race Club 72
Hartley, Sergeant Peter 177–78, 180, 186–88, 194, 197, 200, 203, 212–13, 226, 230, 234–35, 244, 250, 252
Harukiku Maru (SS Van Waerwijck) 173, 174, 278
Haruku xviii, 222, 223
Hell railway (trans-Sumatran) xvi, xvii, xix, xxi, 221, 224–25, 242, 248, 250–52, 257
Camp 2—“Death Camp” 198, 209, 224, 230, 234, 242
Camp 4—Teratakboeloeh 198, 200, 202, 204, 208–9, 215, 222–23, 225–26
Camp 5—Loeboeksakat 226–231
Camp 7—Lipatkain 231–33, 235, 240, 242, 244, 248
completion of 248–50
Royal Marines arrive 251–52
work and life on 194–96, 197–98, 202–5, 209–10, 211–15, 216–17, 219–20, 224–25, 226–27, 232–34, 236, 239, 240–41, 242–43, 244, 248
Hiroshima, Japan 247, 257
Hoffman, Commander Jack 85, 89, 90, 92–94, 97–98, 105–6, 110, 270, 276
Holt, Rear Admiral Reginald 39, 53, 57–58
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank wet bar, Hankow 43
Ijzerman, W. 196, 241
India 110–11, 155, 166, 258
Indragiri River, Sumatra 113–14, 125, 152, 177, 195, 221, 277
Jacobs, Major Gideon 251
Japanese Imperial Armed Forces
Air Forces 41, 52, 55–56, 68, 69, 71–73, 79, 81–83, 84, 85–86, 90–94
attack and take Singapore 79–80, 81–86, 97, 120
attack British and Allied gunboats on Yangtze River 54, 58, 71
attack HMS Grasshopper and Dragonfly 89–95
Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944) 225–26
fall of Hankow 73
fall of Nanking 57
fall of Peking 51
fall of Shanghai 52
India and the Battle for Kohima (1944) 166
invade Sumatra 111, 114
Navy 28, 33, 52, 55–56, 84, 88, 225
sink HMS Li Wo 88
sink HMS Scorpion 84
sink HMS Vyner Brooke 88–89
take Kiukiang 59
threaten Judy in Hankow 74–75
see also Banno, Colonel; Gloegoer One POW camp; Hell railway (trans-Sumatran); Padang, Sumatra; Singapore
Jefferey, Chief Petty Officer 15, 21, 24–25, 27, 29, 45–46, 62, 78, 103, 191
Judy “of Sussex”
alerts HMS Gnat to cess ship 29–31
alerts HMS Gnat to Japanese warplanes 41–42
alerts HMS Gnat to pirates on Yangtze 35–36, 37, 38
alerts HMS Grasshopper to Japanese warplanes 89
arrives in Singapore as POW 188–89
attempted escape across Sumatra 112, 113, 115–16, 117–18
awarded Dickin Medal (Animal VC) 256
Christmas 1942 in Gloegoer 154
comforting the sick and wounded 83, 157
confronting wild animals 45, 117–18, 155–56, 259
escapes torpedoed SS Van Waerwijck and rescues survivors 181, 185
falls into cesspit 47–49
falls overboard from HMS Gnat 21–25
finds water for shipwrecked escapees 104–5
first hunting expedition 46–49
Gloegoer poem 147
greets Royal Marine rescuers 251
in Hankow 44–48, 60–71, 73–74
Hell railway and camps 199–200, 202, 205, 207, 212–13, 214, 215, 216, 220–21, 222–23, 235–38, 239, 244, 248–49, 251
on HMS Gnat 11–16, 18–25, 26–31, 34, 35–36, 37, 39, 40–42, 53–54, 60–71, 72
on HMS Grasshopper 77–79, 80–81, 84, 85, 89–90, 92, 95
imprisoned at Gloegoer One POW camp 136, 139, 141, 143–46, 151, 152, 154, 157, 159–60, 161–66, 168, 169–170
imprisoned at Padang 123, 124, 125, 126–30
imprisoned in River Valley Road Camp 191–93
Japanese attack HMS Grasshopper 108–9, 113, 117
Japanese attack HMS Gnat 70–71
Japanese sentry in Hankow 73–75
kidnapped by USS Panay 53–54
life and death in Africa 259–62
life in England 252–253, 255–56, 258–59
made official POW at Gloegoer One 164�
�65, 168
and Mickey the monkey 80–81
and Paul, mascot of the Francis Garnier 62–67, 69
protects raft from shark 102–3
as a puppy in Shanghai 1–3, 4–8, 11
puppy litters 62, 68–71, 72, 161–66, 259
rescued from the HMS Grasshopper 101–2
saved by Colonel Banno 188–89
senses arrival of Japanese in Padang 122–23
shipwrecked with crew of HMS Grasshopper 102–5, 106
shot defending a POW 237–38
smuggled out of Gloegoer One 171, 172–74
stowaway on SS Van Waerwijck 174–76, 177, 180
Strong Toppers Club initiation 44
tricks Japanese guards 145–46
tricks the “Black Corporal” 220
in Wuhu 33–34
see also Devani, Jock; Jefferey, Chief Petty Officer; Oliver, Leading Seaman Vic; Searle, Leading Stoker Les; White, Petty Officer George; Williams, Leading Aircraftman Frank
Junyo Maru xix, 222–24, 250, 258
Kempeitai 172
Kirkwood, Dr. 162, 165
Kish (Judy’s puppy) 163–65
Kiukiang, China 58, 59
Kohima, Battle for (1944) 166
Korean soldiers xix, 134, 135–36, 166, 209, 210
Kuala 87
Kung Wo 87
Kuantan River, Sumatra 195–96
Ladybird and crew, HMS 10, 33–35, 55, 56, 77
Law, Leading Seaman 62, 74–75, 78
Lee Ming 2–3, 7–8, 21
Leyte Gulf, Battle of (1944) 225–26
Li Wo, HMS 88
Lipatkain—Camp 7, Sumatra see under Hell railway (trans-Sumatran)
Loeboeksakat—Camp 5, Sumatra see under Hell railway (trans-Sumatran)
Lonergan, Sick Berth Attendant Terence 55
Marco Polo Bridge, Peking 51
Matsuoka, Lieutenant 142, 287
Mickey the monkey 80–81, 8, 89
Miura, Lieutenant 197, 284
Nagasaki, Japan 247, 257
Nanking, China 4, 9, 33, 52–53, 55–57, 70
Neville, Lieutenant Commander Edward 77
Nissi, Captain 167–72, 174–76, 186–87, 189, 191, 221, 252
Oliver, Leading Seaman Vic 22–24, 58–59, 62
Padang, Sumatra 146–59
Pakan Baroe, Sumatra 196–97, 211, 222, 229, 231–32, 233, 249, 251, 257–58
Palembang, Sumatra 111, 277–78
Panay, USS 53–55, 56–57
Paul (mascot of the Francis Garnier) 65–69
PDSA animal charity 256
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 82
Peking (later Beijing), China 51
Philippines 81–82, 225
pirates on Yangtze River 34–37
Pompong Island 87
Porky (Korean guard) 210, 231–32
Prince of Wales, HMS 82, 98
Puncheon, Petty Officer “Punch” 129, 131, 136, 152, 161, 165
Red Cross 151–54, 162, 166, 208, 250
Redang 85
Rengar, Sumatra 114
Repulse, HMS 82, 98
Returned Prisoners of War Association, London 255
River Valley Road Camp, Singapore 190–91, 194, 197, 208
Rojok (Judy’s puppy) 166
romushas 197, 202, 206, 216, 222, 224, 240, 244, 258
Roosevelt, President Franklin Delano 235
Rorke, Padre Patrick 234
Russell, Stanley xv
Saito, General 242
Sawahluento railway station 114, 119
Scarab, HMS 55
Scorpion, HMS 77–78, 83–84, 109
Scott, Tom “Geordie” 219–20
Searle, Leading Stoker Les 81, 82–83, 171
attempted escape across Sumatra 112, 115, 117, 121
captured and imprisoned in Padang 122–23, 124, 126, 128
Gloegoer One POW camp 137, 144–45, 152–53, 165, 169
Hell railway and camps 199, 202, 203, 224–25, 232, 244
River Valley Road Camp 191
sinking of the HMS Dragonfly 105–6
SS Van Waerwijck 176, 179, 180, 185, 188–89
Sew-sew (Hankow seamstress) 60, 69
Shanghai, China 1–8, 9–12, 14, 16, 19–21, 27–28, 33, 38, 43, 45, 49, 52, 58–59, 62, 76, 78, 84, 129, 221
Shanghai dog Kennels 1–8, 11, 21, 62, 78, 221
Sheikje (Judy’s puppy) 165–66
Siang Wo 85
Singapore 78–80, 81–86, 97, 120, 169
POWs arrive in 186–89
River Valley Road Camp 190–91, 194, 197, 208
Singkep Island 110
Slim, General Bill 167, 233
Smith, Lance Corporal 210–11
Soo (Shanghai shop-keeper) 4–6, 45, 74
Sprott, Commander Alfred 86, 91, 105, 270, 272
Saint-Nazaire, France 146–48
Strong Toppers Club, Hankow 43–45, 59, 154, 230
Sumatra
attempted escape across 110–18
Camp 2—“Death Camp” 197–98, 209, 224, 234–35, 242
Camp 4—Teratakboeloeh 198, 200–201, 207–8, 209, 215, 222–24, 225
Camp 5—Loeboeksakat 226, 227, 229–31
Camp 7—Lipatkain 231–32, 233, 235, 240, 242, 244, 248–49
Padang 120–30
see also Gloegoer One POW camp; Hell railway (trans-Sumatran)
Sumatran railway see Hell railway (trans-Sumatran)
Sung “Joe Binks” and family, Hankow 60, 69
Tailwaggers Club charity 256
Takahashi, Officer 142–43
Teratakboeloeh—Camp 4, Sumatra see under Hell railway (trans-Sumatran)
Thai–Burma railway xvi, 197, 199
Tien Kwang 87
Tientsin (later Tianjin), China 51
Toba, Lake 132
Tradewind, HMS 222
Truculent, HMS 178, 183–84
Tutuila, USS 62
United States Armed Forces 154, 279
Air Force 232, 245, 247
Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944) 225–26
bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki 247, 257
Navy 53–54, 55–57, 61–62
POWs 224–25, 226–27, 228, 247–48
Van Waerwijck, SS (Harukiku Maru) 173–74, 278
VE day 242
Voisey, Rouse vii, xvi, xviii, 222, 250, 252
Vyner Brooke, HMS 88
Waldegrave, Lieutenant Commander 10, 15, 19, 22, 24, 26, 29, 34–36, 38, 40–41, 58, 78
White Man’s Mountain, Glengower Camp One 155–60
White, Petty Officer George 80–81, 85, 89, 90, 94, 95, 98–103, 106–7, 110–12, 184, 191, 258
Wilkinson, Lieutenant 88
Williams, Engine Room Artificer Leonard 105, 210–12, 216
Williams, Leading Aircraftman Frank 87, 181, 184, 191, 216
Gloegoer Camp One 158, 161, 162, 164–65, 168, 169–70, 208
Hell railway and camps 200, 202, 204, 207, 212, 232, 236, 239, 244, 248, 251
life with Judy after the war 256, 258–62
protects Judy from Hell railway guards 237, 248
smuggles Judy home to England 252, 255
smuggles Judy on to SS Van Waerwijck 169–70, 171, 172–76
Wugle (HMS Gnat boat-boy) 22, 23, 24
Wuhu, China 33, 34–35, 71
Xling Gorge, China 35, 37–38
Yangtze River, China 3, 9–10, 19, 20–24, 25–26, 29–30, 34–37, 52–53, 78
Yarnell, Admiral 56
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