We recognise their continuing connection to land, sea and In October Geneva Cards were made out and high hopes were raised that at last letters might be sent to Europe and vice versa. The Australian War Memorial was voted the number one landmark in Australia by travelers in the 2016 Trip Advisor awards. They were then threatened with digging their own graves and mass execution at dawn, The Chaplain being sent for and ordered to read them the last rites. In June and July the war crept appreciably nearer Macassar and on the 26th July the majority of officers and 350 half sick men were trans-shipped to Java. ( This smuggling was a continual source of trouble and an endless source of worry and was the main cause of nauseating beatings. The Japanese wished to get the maximum work out of us at the least cost. (b) That the spirit of the British, as a whole, at Macassar during the time of their captivity was high. I have been purposely somewhat full of describing the part played by this man as everything that occurred in this Camp can be traced to this, the most hateful human being that any of us have ever had the misfortune to encounter.The British position was not improved by the fact that YOSHIDA had a personal dislike of me the Senior Officer of the Unit.

As this sum was essential to the men’s welfare and for purchasing such things as spectacles, it is requested that this public loan be treated as a public commitment and repaid without any individual deduction from pay balances.EXAMPLES OF LOW MENTALITY DISPLAYED BY JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR GUARDS1. The Sergeants and other ranks ran the camps and most of them are covered by the above examples.FROM: THE CAPTAIN, EIGHTH SUBMARINE FLOTILLA, H.M.S. Come and see why. He was promoted to 3rd Class Petty Officer in May, 1943 and subsequently at yearly intervals to the higher classes.

PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE DESTROYER HMS STRONGHOLD (H50). The tempo of the work now increased and the British, due to the fact that they were the largest contingent provided 4/9ths of the men. SHE IS PAINTED IN A UNOFFICIAL CAMOUFLAGE SCHEME PROBABLY OF DARK AND LIGHT GREY (507A AND 507C RESPECTIVELY). HMS Stronghold (NavyPhotos/Mark Teadham, click to enlarge) return to Contents List : S-Class destroyer ordered from Scotts of Greenock with Emergency 1917-16 Programme (12th Order). Work for the Japanese was done as slovenly as possible and later when they made the men produce such things as hand-grenade shells, spears, swords and daggers etc., the articles would in many instances have proved more embarrassing to the Japanese than the Allies (one Japanese was reported to have been killed when testing a P.O.W. They also seriously restricted the supplies of Quinine. The rest must have gone to the Japanese forces somewhere.12.

The rice ration remained satisfactory at about 420 grams per man. On occasion I found Captain J.R. BAKKER throwing pillows at some of my patients and refusing admission to the hospital of some of my men from the aerodrome who, very ill and dirty from seven weeks no soap and living in one coat and one pair of shorts, required immediate nursing. she mounts only two of her original three 4 inch mark iv guns on cp mark iii mountings, the mounting on the quarterdeck having been removed. We expected the Japanese to pay us but they never did so in the first eighteen months. CHUBB, R.N., who kept it until 26th July, 1945. This reacted on my Officers and men, but they were prepared to accept it and preferred that this should be, than that I should act in a manner that was contrary to the traditions of our Service.6. The barracks were built of bamboo with a palm leaf thatch and were satisfactory, judged from a Japanese point of view. Next morning, the guards sent for iodine, ostensibly to tend his wounds. They were at Leeuwin for 2 or 3 weeks. In April, 1945, we were transferred to a nearby reformatory designed for 400 Javanese juvenile delinquents, and were joined there a few weeks later by other ranks from Batavia until we had 3,800 in the camp. HMS STRONGHOLD (H 50) - Old S-class Destroyer.

In both cases where there were men who might conceivably be used for Japanese war ends if they stated the truth, fictitious trades were made up.

The Dutch numbered about 1800, Americans 167 and the British 945. Varying sums were charged for accommodation and the balance put into savings. )I assumed command of the British Prisoners of War at Macassar when the officers left on 2nd October, 1943, there being then 12 officers and 650 men based on the camp.2. By good fortune H.M.S. The guards then set fire to the hair on various parts of his body and bound him to the railings for the night. HMS Stronghold was a Royal Naval Destroyer, built at Scotts of Greenock for the Admiralty.She was sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea on 2 March 1942. This iodine was 7½% concentrate compared to the normal British 2½%, they poured up his nose. This state lasted until the 250 British at the Maros Aerodrome returned on the 12th July, no reason for their return being given though the work in the main was completed, and it is thought that the large increase in Malaria and stomach complaints, together with the arrival after the working party had left, of two squadrons of bombers, was the cause – most probably because of the latter fact.8.

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