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Children of the Camps

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by Mark Felton

18. ‘Taken Prisoner: ‘The March’ from Katong House to Changi Jail Singapore – 12th February to 8th March 1942’ by Robert Brooks, Children of Far east Prisoners of War Association, Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 15 January 2010

  Chapter 2 – Evacuation

  1. ‘My Memories of Leaving Singapore’ by Catherine Butcher, Children of Far East Prisoners of War Association, Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 14 January 2009

  2. Ibid.

  3. Ibid.

  4. ‘My Memories of Being a Child Civilian Internee’ by Eileen Page (nee Harris), Children of Far East Prisoners of War Association,Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 5 January 2009

  5. ‘A Lost Youth’ by greyladies, WW2 People’s War,Article ID:A8049378, BBC History, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history, 26 December 2005, accessed 1 May 2010

  6. HMS Giang Bee – Researched Passenger List, Children of Far East Prisoners of War Association (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 6 May 2010

  7. Ibid.

  8. ‘A Lost Youth’ by greyladies, WW2 People’s War,Article ID:A8049378, BBC History, 26 December 2005, accessed 1 May 2010

  Chapter 3 – New Masters

  1. ‘Taken Prisoner: ‘The March’ from Katong House to Changi Jail Singapore – 12th February to 8th March 1942’ by Robert Brooks, Children of Far East Prisoners of War Association, Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 15 January 2010

  2. Colin Smith, Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II (London: Penguin Viking, 2005) 554

  3. R. M. Horner, Singapore Diary: The Hidden Journal of Captain

  R. M. Horner (London: Spellmount Publishers Ltd, 2007), 12

  4. Diary of Brigadier Eric Whitlock Goodman, DSO, MC, 17th February 1942, Far East Prisoners of War Association (FEPOW), http://www. britain-at-war.org.uk/WW2/Brigadier_EW_Goodman/

  5. ‘Taken Prisoner: ‘The March’ from Katong House to Changi Jail Singapore – 12th February to 8th March 1942’ by Robert Brooks, Children of Far East Prisoners of War Association, Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 15 January 2010

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Ibid.

  10. ‘My Tenko Quilt: The 78-year-old reunited with the quilt she made secretly in Japan camp’ by Elizabeth Sanderson, The Mail on Sunday, 20 March 2010

  11. Noel Barber, Sinister Twilight: The Fall of Singapore (London: Cassell Military, 2002), 243

  12. ‘Taken Prisoner: ‘The March’ from Katong House to Changi Jail Singapore – 12th February to 8th March 1942’ by Robert Brooks, Children of Far East Prisoners of War Association, Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 15 January 2010

  Chapter 4 – Internment

  1. ‘My Memories of Being a Child Civilian Internee’ by Eileen Page (nee Harris), Children of Far East Prisoners of War Association, Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 5 January 2009

  2. Ibid.

  3. Bernice Archer, The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 1941–1945: A patchwork of internment (Routledge, 2004), 177

  4. Ibid: 184

  5. Ibid.

  6. Ibid: 186

  7. Ibid: 186

  8. Ibid: 186

  9. Ibid: Author to add page number

  10. Ibid: 187

  11. Ibid: 188

  12. Ibid: 190

  13. Ibid: 190

  14. Ibid: 190

  15. Ibid: 192

  16. Ibid: 192

  17. Ibid: 192

  18. Ibid: 192

  19. Frances B. Cogan, Captured, The Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941–1945 (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2000), 2

  20. Ibid: 246

  21. Bernice Archer, The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 1941–1945: A patchwork of internment (Routledge, 2004), 181

  22. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 293–4

  23. Bernice Archer, The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 1941–1945: A patchwork of internment (Routledge, 2004), 184

  24. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 293–4

  25. Ibid: 294

  26. Ibid: 299–300

  27. Bernice Archer, The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 1941–1945: A patchwork of internment (Routledge, 2004), 187

  28. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 300

  29. Bernice Archer, The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 1941–1945: A patchwork of internment (Routledge, 2004), 192

  30. C. Hudson Southwell, Uncharted Waters (Calgary: Astana Publishing, 1999), 165

  31. Peter Firkins, Borneo Surgeon: A Reluctant Hero (Western Australia: Hesperian Press, 1995)

  Chapter 5 – City of Terror

  1. Ralph Shaw, Sin City (London: Warner Books, 1973), 207

  2. ‘Life in Occupied Shanghai – 1941’ by Norman Douglas Shaw, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A3913382, BBC History, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history, 18 April 2005, accessed 22 January 2010

  3. Ibid.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ibid.

  6. ‘Japanese Internment Camp in China’ by Moira Barbara, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A4038220, BBC History, 9 May 2005, accessed 21 January 2010

  7. Valerie Kinghorn and Ronald Calder interviewed by Dani Garavelli, The Sunday Times, 12 February 2001

  8. Ibid.

  9. ‘Japanese Internment Camp in China’ by Moira Barbara, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A4038220, BBC History, 9 May 2005, accessed 21 January 2010

  10. Ibid.

  11. Bernard Wasserstein, Secret War in Shanghai: Treachery, Subversion and Collaboration in the Second World War (London: Profile Books Ltd, 1998), 140

  12. ‘Heather Burch remembers Lunghwa CAC’, interview, Shanghai High School International Division

  13. Shanghai – Longhua Camp, from an interview with Rachel Bosebury Beck, Shanghai High School International Division

  14. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 294

  15. Valerie Kinghorn interviewed by Dani Garavelli, The Sunday Times, 12 February 2001

  16. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 295–6

  17. Shanghai – Longhua Camp, from an interview with Rachel Bosebury Beck, Shanghai High School International Division

  18. Ibid.

  19. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 295

  20. Shanghai – Longhua Camp, from an interview with Rachel Bosebury Beck, Shanghai High School International Division

  21. Ibid.

  22. Ibid.

  23. ‘Heather Burch remembers Lunghwa CAC’, interview, Shanghai High School International Division

  24. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 295

  25. ‘Heather Burch remembers Lunghwa CAC’, interview, Shanghai High School International Division

  26. Valerie Kinghorn and Ronald Calder interviewed by Dani Garavelli, The Sunday Times, 12 February 2001

  27. Shanghai – Longhua Camp, from an interview with Rachel Bosebury Beck, Shanghai High School International Division

  28. Valerie Kinghorn interviewed by Dani Garavelli, The Sunday Times, 12 February 2001

  29. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War, (London: Viking, 2007), 296

  30. Ibid: 296

  31. Ibid: 299

  32. ‘Heather Burch remembers Lunghwa CAC’, interview, Shanghai High School International Division

  33. ‘Nel’s Story: Part II: Internment – Kares-E and Kota Paris’ by anakbandung, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A2796942, BBC History, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history, 30 June 2004, accessed 22 January 2010

  34. Ibid.

  35. J.G. Ballard interviewed by Martin Amis, The Observ
er Magazine, 2 September 1984

  36. J.G. Ballard interviewed by Claire Tomalin, The Sunday Times, 9 September 1984

  37. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 299

  38. Shanghai – Longhua Camp, from an interview with Rachel Bosebury Beck, Shanghai High School International Division

  39. ‘Heather Burch remembers Lunghwa CAC’, interview, Shanghai High School International Division

  40. Courtesy of David Parker, OBE, Director of Information and Secretariat, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, in a letter to the author, 14 March 2008

  Chapter 6 – Hell’s Waiting Room

  1. Michel’s Musings, http://members.iinet.net.au/~vanderkp/michel. htm, accessed 14 January 2010

  2. ‘Tjideng – A Prison Camp for Woman: Riet Remembers’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 20 January 2010

  3. Ibid.

  4. ‘Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945 (a women and children’s internment camp in Batavia) Hetty’s Story’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 13 January 2009

  5. Ibid.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid.

  8. ‘Hardy’s memories of life in Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 15 January 2010

  9. ‘Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945 (a women and children’s internment camp in Batavia) Hetty’s Story’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 13 January 2009

  10.Gavan Daws, Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of the Second World War (London: Pocket Books, 1994), 59

  11.‘Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945 (a women and children’s internment camp in Batavia) Hetty’s Story’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 13 January 2009

  12.‘Hardy’s memories of life in Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 15 January 2010

  13.Michel’s Musings, http://members.iinet.net.au/~vanderkp/michel. htm, accessed 20 January 2010

  14.‘Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945 (a women and children’s internment camp in Batavia) Hetty’s Story’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 13 January 2009

  15.Ibid.

  16.Ibid.

  17.‘Hardy’s memories of life in Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 15 January 2010

  18.Ibid.

  19.Michel’s Musings, http://members.iinet.net.au/~vanderkp/michel. htm, accessed 20 January 2010

  20.Ibid.

  21.‘Hardy’s memories of life in Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 15 January 2010

  22.Ibid.

  23.Ibid.

  24.Michel’s Musings, http://members.iinet.net.au/~vanderkp/michel. htm, accessed 20 January 2010

  25.Ibid.

  26.Ibid.

  27.Ibid.

  28.‘Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945 (a women and children’s internment camp in Batavia) Hetty’s Story’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 13 January 2009

  29.‘Tjideng – A Prison Camp for Woman: Riet Remembers’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 20 January 2010

  30.Ibid.

  31.Ibid.

  32.Ibid.

  33.‘Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945 (a women and children’s internment camp in Batavia) Hetty’s Story’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 13 January 2009

  34.‘Hardy’s memories of life in Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 15 January 2010

  35.Ibid.

  36.‘Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945 (a women and children’s internment camp in Batavia) Hetty’s Story’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 13 January 2009

  37.Hardy’s memories of life in Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 15 January 2010

  38.‘Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945 (a women and children’s internment camp in Batavia) Hetty’s Story’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 13 January 2009

  39.Hardy’s memories of life in Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 15 January 2010

  40.‘How I lost My Best Friend’ by sonnyjim/Mike Nellis, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A2859276, BBC History, accessed 20 November 2008

  41.‘My Experiences in Japanese Concentration Camps on Java, Indonesia’ by Johan Rijkee, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A4180169, BBC History, accessed 3 January 2009

  42.Ibid.

  43.‘How I lost My Best Friend’ by sonnyjim/Mike Nellis, WW2 People’s War, BBC History, Article ID: A2859276, accessed 20 November 2008

  44.Ibid.

  45.Ibid.

  46.Ibid.

  47.Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 295

  48.‘My Experiences in Japanese Concentration Camps on Java, Indonesia’ by Johan Rijkee, WW2 People’s War, BBC History, Article ID: A4180169, accessed 3 January 2009

  49.Ibid.

  50.Ibid.

  51.Ibid.

  Chapter 7 – Hard Times

  1. Bernice Archer, The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 1941–1945, A Patchwork of Internment (Routledge, 2004), 197

  2. Ibid: 197

  3. Ibid: 198

  4. Ibid: 200

  5. ‘My Memories of Being a Child Civilian Internee’ by Eileen Page (nee Harris), Children of Far East Prisoners of War Association, Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 5 January 2009

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Bernice Archer, The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 1941–1945, A Patchwork of Internment (Routledge, 2004), 198

  9. Ibid: 199

  10. Ibid: 203

  11. ‘My Tenko Quilt: The 78-year-old reunited with the quilt she made secretly in Japan camp’ by Elizabeth Sanderson, The Mail on Sunday, 20 March 2010

  12. Ibid.

  13. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 299

  14. ‘Three Years In A Prison Camp’ by Ada N. Hayes, The Hampton Union, May 10, 1945

  15. Ibid.

  16. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 298

  17. Ibid.

  18. ‘Three Years In A Prison Camp’ by Ada N. Hayes, The Hampton Union, May 10, 1945

  19. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 298

  20. Ibid.

  21. ‘Three Years In A Prison Camp’ by Ada N. Hayes, The Hampton Union, May 10, 1945

  22. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 298

  23. Bernice Archer, The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 1941–1945, A Patchwork of Internment (Routledge, 2004), 205

  24. Ibid: 205

  25. Ibid: 205

  26. Ibid: 205–6

  27. Ibid: 191

  28. Ibid: 191

  Chapter 8 – Comfort Girls

  1. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 295

  2. Bart van Poelgeest, Report of a Study of Dutch Government Documents on the Forced Prostitution of Dutch Women in the Dutch East Indies during the Japanese Occupation, Unofficial Translation, 24 January 1994

  3. Ibid.

  4. Ly
n Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 296

  5. Ibid.

  6. The Forgotten Ones, transcript of television documentary on Australian Story, produced by Margaret Parker, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, http://www.abc.net.au/auhistory/transcripts/s351798. htm

  7. Ibid.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Ibid.

  10. Ibid.

  11. The Forgotten Ones, transcript of television documentary on Australian Story, produced by Margaret Parker, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, http://www.abc.net.au/auhistory/transcripts/s351798. htm

  Chapter 9 – God Save the King

  1. Shanghai – Longhua Camp, from an interview with Rachel Bosebury Beck, Shanghai High School International Division

  2. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 297

  3. Shanghai – Longhua Camp, from an interview with Rachel Bosebury Beck, Shanghai High School International Division

  4. Ibid.

  5. Valerie Kinghorn and Ronald Calder interviewed by Dani Garavelli, The Sunday Times, 12 February 2001

  6. ‘God Save the King!’ by Mrs K.S. Snuggs, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A2350135, 26 February 2004, BBC History, http://www.bbc. co.uk/history, accessed 21 January 2010

  7. Ibid.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Lyn Smith, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War (London: Viking, 2007), 294

  10. Ibid: 294

  Chapter 10 – The Final Stretch

  1. Keat Gin Ooi, Japanese Empire in the Tropics: Selected Documents and Reports of the Japanese Period in Sarawak, North West Borneo, 1941– 1945, Ohio University Center for International Studies, Monographs in International Studies, SE Asia Series 101, 1998

  2. ‘Tjideng Camp – 1942 to 1945 (a women and children’s internment camp in Batavia) Hetty’s Story’, Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW), Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 13 January 2009

  3. ‘How I lost My Best Friend’ by Mike Nellis, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A2859276, BBC History, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history, accessed 20 November 2008

 

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