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Children of the Camps

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by Mark Felton

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

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

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid.

  8. ‘One Suitcase, No Toys’ by Rose of Java, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A3712231, BBC History, 24 February 2005, accessed 19 March 2010

  9. Ibid.

  10. Ibid.

  11. ‘Nel’s Story: Part III: Internment in Work Camp Kampong-Makassar’ by anak-bandung, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A2797338, BBC History, , 30 June 2004, accessed 22 January 2010

  12. Ibid.

  13. Ibid.

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

  16. ‘Phyllis Briggs’s War – Life in the Dutch Houses [P. Thom : Part 5]’ by Bournemouth Libraries, WW2People’s War, Article ID: A3478179, BBC History, accessed 27 November 2008

  17. Ibid.

  18. Ibid.

  19. ‘Prisoner of War Memories’ by Cassandra Jardine, Daily Telegraph, 29 November 1997

  20. Ibid.

  21. Ibid.

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

  23. Ibid.

  24. Ibid.

  25. ‘Tucsonan Recalls POW Ordeal after Japan Captured Corregidor’ by Bonnie Henry, The Arizona Daily Star, http://www.azstarnet.com, accessed 15 May 2008

  26. Max Hastings, Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (London: Harper Perennial, 2008), 247

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

  28. Ibid.

  29. Ibid.

  30. Ibid.

  31. 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, 332

  32. Ibid: 391

  Chapter 11 – The Last Tenko

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

  2. Ibid.

  3. War Ministry to Commanding General of Military Police, Taiwan, 1August 1944, Document No. 2710, Record Group 238, Box 2015, (National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington D.C.)

  4. Ibid.

  5. George Duncan’s Historical Facts of World War II: Massacres and Atrocities of World War II, Pacific (including Dutch East Indies) http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres_pacific.html# Pacific

  6. War Ministry to Commanding General of Military Police, Taiwan, 1August 1944, Document No. 2710, Record Group 238, Box 2015, (National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington D.C.)

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

  8. Ibid.

  9. Bernice Archer, The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 1941–1945, A Patchwork of Internment (Routledge, 2004), 206

  10. Author to supply ref for Bates at proof.

  11. ‘My Experiences in Japanese Concentration Camps on Java, Indonesia’ by Johan Rijkee, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A4180169, BBC History, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history, accessed 3 January 2009

  12. Ibid.

  13. Ibid.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Ibid.

  16. ‘Nel’s Story: Part III: Internment in Work Camp Kampong-Makassar’ by anak-bandung, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A2797338, BBC History, 30 June 2004, accessed 22 January 2010

  17. Lord Russell of Liverpool, The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes (London: Greenhill Books, 2005), 210

  18. Gavan Daws, Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of the Second World War in the Pacific (London: Pocket Books, 2006), 350

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

  20. Ibid.

  Chapter 12 – The Lost Children

  1. ‘British PoWs vow to fight on’, BBC News, 26 November 1998, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news, accessed 10 January 2009

  2. ‘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

  3. ‘Lost’ by Arie den Hollander, Children of Far East Prisoners of War Association, www.cofepow.org, accessed 10 January 2009

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Ibid.

  10. ‘One Suitcase, No Toys’ by Rose of Java, WW2 People’s War, Article ID: A3712231, BBC History, 24 February 2005, accessed 19 March 2010

  11. ‘Lost’ by Arie den Hollander, Children of Far East Prisoners of War Association, Website: www.cofepow.org, accessed 10 January 2009

  Chapter 13 – Blood Link

  1. ‘Britain to pay debt of honour to Japanese PoWs’ by Michael Smith and Andy McSmith, Daily Telegraph, 19 June 2001

  2. Ibid.

  3. ‘Japanese PoWs uncover cash timebomb’ by Tim Butcher, Daily Telegraph, 24 April 1998

  4. ‘PoWs to receive “debt of honour” ’, BBC News, 7 November 2000, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news, accessed 9 January 2009

  5. A debt of honour: the ex gratia scheme for British groups interned by the Japanese during the Second World War, The Parliamentary Ombudsman, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, http://www. ombudsman.org.uk, 2005

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid.

  8. ‘Subjects of rough justice’, The Standard (Hong Kong), 28 October 2006

  9. Ibid.

  10. Ibid.

  11. ‘£10,000 PoW payments delayed’ by Philip Johnstone, Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2001

  12. ‘Victory at last for war camp widow snubbed by MoD’ by Philip Johnstone, Daily Telegraph, 10 October 2006

  13. Ibid.

  Selected Sources and

  Bibliography

  Archives

  1. MacMillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Imperial Japanese Army, Box 263, Exhibit 1978, Document No. 1114-B:

  Regarding the outline for the disposal of Prisoners of War according to the change of situation, a notification, Army-Asia-Secret No. 2257, by the Vice War Minister, 11 March 1945

  2. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington D.C.

  1. Chief Prisoner of War Camps Tokyo to Chief of Staff, Taiwan Army, 20 August 1945, Document No. 2697, Record Group 238, Box 2011

  2. War Ministry to Commanding General of Military Police, 1 August 1944, Document No. 2710, Record Group 238, Box 2015

  Published Sources

  Allan, Sheila, Diary of a Girl in Changi, 1941–45, Simon & Schuster Australia, 3rd Edition, 2004

  Archer, Bernice, The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941–45: A Patchwork of Internment, Hong Kong University Press, 2008

  Arthur, Anthony, Deliverance at Los Banos, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985

  Bayly, Christopher & Harper, Tim, Forgotten Armies: Britain’s Asian Empire & the War with Japan, Penguin Books, 2005

  Chang, Iris, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, Penguin Books, 1998

  Cogan, Frances B., Captured: The Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941–1945, University of Georgia Press, 2000

  Colijn, Helen, Song of Survival: Women Interned, White Cloud Press, 1998

  Daws, Gavan, Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of t
he Second World War, Pocket Books, 1994

  Emerson, Geoffrey, Hong Kong Internment, 1941–1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley, Hong Kong University Press, 2008

  Felton, Mark, The Coolie Generals: Britain’s Far Eastern Military Leaders in Japanese Captivity, Pen and Sword Books Limited, 2008

  —— Japan’s Gestapo: Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Occupied Asia, Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2009

  —— The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese, Pen and Sword Books Limited, 2009

  Firkins, Peter, Borneo Surgeon: A Reluctant Hero, Hesperian Press, 1995

  Hastings, Max, Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45, Harper Perennial, 2008

  Kaminski, Theresa, Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific University Press of Kansas, 2000

  Keith, Agnes, Three Came Home: A mother’s ordeal in a Japanese prison camp, Eland Publishing Ltd (New Edition), 2002

  Lord Russell of Liverpool, The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes, Greenhill Books, 2002

  Lindsay, Oliver, The Battle for Hong Kong 1941–1945: Hostage to Fortune, Spellmount Publishers Ltd, 2005

  Lucas, Celia, Prisoners of Santo Tomas: Civilian Prisoners of the Japanese, Based on the Diaries of Mrs. Isla Corfield, Leo Cooper, 1975

  Oronato, Michael P., Forgotten Heroes: Japan’s Imprisonment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1942–1945 – an Oral History, Meckler, 1990

  Smith, Colin, Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II, Penguin Books Ltd, 2005

  Smith, Lyn, Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War, Viking, 2007

  Southwell, C. Hudson, Uncharted Waters, Astana Publishing, 1999

  Papers

  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

  Poelgeest, Bart van, 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

  Newspapers and Periodicals

  The Daily Mail

  The Sunday Times

  The Observer

  Websites

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation, http://www.abc.net.au/auhistory

  BBC History WW2 People’s War, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history

  Brave Women of Oceania, http://www.angellpro.com.au

  Children of Far East Prisoners of War Association, http://www.cofepow.org

  Dutch Resistance Museum, http://www.verzetsmuseum.org

  Far East Prisoners of War Association, http://www.fepow-community.org.uk

  Singapore Ministry of Education, http://www1.moe.edu.sg

  Veterans Affairs Canada, http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca

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  Index

  Adams, Dorie, 52

  Anderson, Kathleen, 40–1, 139

  Archer, Bernice, 41

  Baker, Ruth, 41

  Ballard, J.G., 14–15, 68–9, 139

  Bates, Hilda, 53, 129, 142

  Beatty, Rosemary, 51

  Begley, Neil, 9

  Blair, Tony (British prime minister), 159, 160, 163

  Bosebury Beck, Rachel, 8–9, 10–11, 15–16, 60–1, 62–3, 65–6, 69, 108, 109–10, 114, 134, 139

  Boswell, Drina, 23–6, 119–20, 148–9

  Briggs, Sister Phyllis, 120–1

  Brooks, Robert, 17–18, 27–8, 31–2, 33

  Bulley, Joan, 155

  Burch, Heather, 11, 67, 69, 139

  Calder, Ronald, 58, 65, 110

  Chamberlain, Neville (British Prime Minister), 3

  Chisholm, Moira, 58–9, 127

  Churchill, Winston (British Prime Minister), 1, 20, 36, 158

  Clark, Ella, 13

  Douglas Shaw, Norman, 16, 56–7

  Eagle, Roger, 17

  Eames, Paget, 101–2, 114, 115

  Eastick, Brig. Thomas, 142

  Elias, Diana, 161–2, 163

  Gale, Elizabeth, 96–7

  Giang Bee, HMS, 23–6, 119

  Gimson, Frank, 37

  Goodman, Brig. Eric, 30–1

  Gunther, Sister Pat, 121

  Halberstadt, Nel, 67–8, 117–18, 145–6

  Hamson,

  Hilary, 43

  Harris, Eileen, 22, 35, 90, 150–1

  Hayashi, Lt.-Col. Toshio, 93, 125

  Henderson, Olga, 21, 28, 32, 34, 91–2

  Hillen, Ernest, 89, 90, 95–6

  Hollander, Arie den, 151–2, 153, 154

  Hong Kong:

  European evacuation of, 3–5

  Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, 36

  Internment Camps - see Internment Camps

  Honnor, Jacqueline, 44, 45–6, 93, 94, 95, 112, 122–3

  Horner, Capt. R.M., 30

  Idzumo, 12, 13

  Internment Camps:

  Ambarawa 8Camp (Java), 96, 143–4

  Ash Camp (Shanghai), 5960

  Bangkinang Camp (Sumatra), 86, 101–2, 103, 104, 114

  Batu Lintang Camp (Borneo), 50–3, 97–9, 129–30, 140

  Bicycle POW Camp (Java), 76–7

  Bloemenkamp (Java), 89

  Camp Kramat (Java), 74

  Changi Camp (Singapore), 31–2, 33, 34, 35–6, 91–2, 123–4

  Chapei Camp (Shanghai), 59

  Columbia Country Club (Shanghai), 59, 60

  Haiphong Road Camp (Shanghai), 57

  Kampong Makassar Camp (Java), 96, 116–17, 128–9, 145–6

  Karangpanas Camp (Java), 84–6

  Kares-e Camp (Java), 67, 117

  Los Banos Camp (Philippines), 96–7

  Lunghwa Camp (Shanghai), 58, 60, 61–2, 63–7, 68–9, 108–10, 134, 138–9, 162

  Muntilan Camp (Sumatra), 103–4

  Muntok Camp (Banka Island), 119–23, 127–8

  Palembang Camp (Sumatra), 120–1

  Pootung Camp (Shanghai), 58, 97

  Santo Tomas Camp (Manila), 44–8, 93–5, 112

  Sime Road Camp (Singapore), 90

  Stanley Camp (Hong Kong), 37–43, 139, 162

  Tjideng Ghetto (Java), 72–83, 84, 113, 118, 147

  Weihsien Camp (Weifang, China), 70, 110–12

  Yangchow A Camp (Yangzhou, China), 61, 62

  Yangchow B Camp (Yangzhou), 61

  Yangchow C Camp (Yangzhou), 62

  Yangtzepoo Camp (Shanghai), 62

  Yu Yuan Road Camp (Shanghai), 59, 61, 127

  Iwabuchi, R.-Adm. Sanji, 124

  Japan:

  7th Army, 102

  16th Army, 102

  atomic bombing of, 131–2

  orders to murder prisoners of war and internees, 134–5

  surrender of, 133–4

  Japanese Internment Camps: see Internment Camps

  Kampen, Elizabeth van, 83–4

  Keith, Agnes, 51

  Kekwick, Anneka, 42–3Lewis, Karen, 46

  Liddell, Eric, 70

  Maas, James, 61, 63, 65, 66, 69

  MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 71, 93, 123, 157

  Maltby,

  Maj.-Gen. Christopher, 36, 54

  Mao Zedong, 157

  Midway, Battle of (1942), 123–5

  Milne, Betty, 35–6

  Munnoch, Catherine, 17, 20, 21

  Murray, Rosemary, 43

  Neufeld, Rebecca, 162–3

  Nimitz, Adm. Chester W., 71

  O’Herne, Jan, 105–7

  Palmer, Lt. Rita, 95

  Parham, Muriel, 150

  Percival, Lt.-Gen. Arthur, 1, 2, 19, 29

  Peterel,HMS, 12–14

  Polkinghorn, Lt.-Com. Stephen, 12–14

  Prising, Robin, 45, 48

  Reading, Marquess of, 158

  Rijkee, Johan, 86–7, 128, 144–5

  Ruff, Jan, 10

  Selwyn-Clarke, Dr P.S., 37

  Shangha
i:

  Internment Camps: see Internment Camps

  Shanghai Volunteer Corps, 11–12

  Shaw, Ralph, 55–6

  Simson, Brig. Ivan, 32–3

  Singapore:

  Battle of (1942), 2–3

  Internment Camps: see Internment Camps

  Sonei, Lt. (later Capt.) Kenichi, 74, 75–6, 77, 79, 81, 82, 83, 118

  Southwell, Hudson, 50

  Special Operations Executive, 12

  Suga, Lt.-Col.

  Tatsuji, 50–1, 129–30, 140–2, 143

  Tithrington, Arthur, 159

  Thomas, Sir Shenton, 27, 30

  Truman, Harry S. (US President), 132

  Tulloch, Valerie, 15, 61

  Tuxford, Don, 52

  Ullom, Lt. Madeleine, 125

  Wang Ching-wei, 59

  Wake, USS, 12

  Williams, Dr Cicely, 36

  Yamashita, Lt.-Gen.

  Tomoyuki, 17, 124

  Young, Sir Mark, 3, 30, 37

 

 

 


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