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1705

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87/58/1

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Private Papers of J A Richardson

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Private Papers

ShortSummary
Ms diary, with transcript (89pp), and tss extracts from his autobiography written in 1985, covering his upbringing and education in London (1914 - 1936), his employment as a field geologist in Malaya (1937 - 1941), his service as a corporal in the Perak Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force who was attached to the 1st Independent Company (11th Indian Division) during the fighting on the Malay peninsula (December 1941 - January 1942) and as a lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps in Singapore (February 1942) with interesting references to Japanese air raids and low Allied civilian and military morale; and describing his subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war in Changi, including the Selarang incident (February-October 1942) and then at Chungkai, Thailand (November 1942 - January 1943, April-June 1943, December 1943 - January 1944), with other officers' working parties at Bankao, Hindato, Takunun and other camps on the Burma-Siam railway (February-March and July-December 1943), and finally at Tamarkan (February-July 1945) and Nakom Nyok (July-September 1945). There are useful entries about the prisoners' ration scales and general health, their treatment by the Japanese, the conduct of some senior British officers, camp routines, entertainments and humour, his philosophy towards captivity and his friendship with the author John Coast.

MakerName
Richardson

AlternativeName
later Dr J A Richardson

Forenames
J A

Style
Lieutenant

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1

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published

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1080

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88/5/1

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Private Papers of P W Dollar

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Folder of very interesting ms/ts documents (40pp in German and English 1943 - 1944) relating to his 'court martial' by the Germans in Colditz prisoner of war camp (Oflag IV C) for insulting a German officer, comprising correspondence between him and a German attorney concerning the case, reports to the court by the attorney giving extracts from evidentiary statements, notes he made for the case, of complaints to be presented to the representative of the International Red Cross and by Colonel Broomhall relating to German maladministration of prisoners' rations and their general obstructiveness. He was captured on Greece in April 1941 while serving with the 4th Queens Own Hussars, 1st Armoured Brigade Group, 2nd Armoured Division.

MakerName
Dollar

Forenames
P W

Style
Lieutenant-Colonel

Weighting
1

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TheCamps

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published

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23/06/2006 12:46:31

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IDNO
3407

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86/67/1

ItemName
Private Papers of H C Benson

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Folder of ts reports on medical conditions in POW camps in Thailand, 1943 - 1945, with particular reference to the work of `L Force' in `F' and `H Force' camps at Kanburi in Coolie camps on the Burma-Siam Railway, giving details of facilities, routine, atrocities, war crimes, maltreatment, Japanese medical organisation and the experiences of a British officer forced to act as dentist to the Japanese. Also: brief ms notes (6pp) made as a prisoner; ts history (6pp) of the actions of 27th Indian Field Ambulance, 9th Indian Division in the Malaya Campaign (December 1941 - February 1942); ms letter (6pp, 1932) describing an expedition he made to carry out a postmortem on two Englishmen who died at a goldmine in a remote part of Egypt; ts report (23pp) on polio cases among service personnel in Malta, 1950; Army Medical Services training memoranda (1952 - 1954) and ms notes/printed handbook on hospital administration, 1947 - 1950; folder of photocopied data relating to the awards of the Victoria Cross and bar to Lieutenant Colonel A Martin-Leake RAMC in 1902 and 1914; also folder of official notes for a course on atomic, biological and chemical warfare (1954) and civil defence (1957).

MakerName
Benson

Forenames
H C

Style
Colonel

Weighting
1

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TheCamps

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published

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23/06/2006 12:46:31

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Documents

IDNO
3553

OtherNumber
95/39/1

ItemName
Private Papers of R Watchorn

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Two YMCA Wartime Logs (circa 200pp) kept by a Canadian airman serving with the RAF during his internment in various German POW camps during the Second World War, containing a good journal covering the period August 1941 - May 1945 which describes the shooting down of his aircraft during a bombing raid over Germany, his capture and subsequent experiences in Dulag Luft, Stalag VIIIB (Lamsdorf), Stalag Luft III (Sagan), Stalag Luft VI (Heydekrug) and Stalag 357 (Thorn and Fallingbostel), containing many interesting observations on conditions in these camps, particularly the hostility he encountered at Lamsdorf towards RAF POWs, his own low opinion of American (and particularly Jewish) POWs, and the terrible conditions in Stalag 357 at the end of the war and during the evacuation of that camp; the Logs also contain artwork, photographs and often humorous vignettes of camp life.

MakerName
Watchorn

Forenames
R

RelatedIWMItems
See DCAR (DPB)

RelatedImageFile
WatchornR_003553_1.jpg

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

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IndexPlace
Germany
Fallingbostel, Lower Saxony, Germany
Lamsdorf, Poland
Sagan, Poland
Hydekrug, East Prussia, Germany
Thorn, East Prussia, Germany

IndexPlaceDetail
Stalag 357, Fallingbostel
Dulag Luft, Lamsdorf
Stalag VIIIB, Lamsdorf
Stalag Luft III, Sagan
Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrüg
Stalag 357, Thorn

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
4030

OtherNumber
84/45/1

ItemName
Private Papers of W J Leaney

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Ms diary (111pp) written while he was a prisoner of war on the Burma-Siam railway in the camps at Tonchan ( November 1942 - April 1943), Tonchan `jungle camp' ( April -August 1943), Tarsao (August 1943) and Chungkai (late August 1943) with vivid descriptions of their many privations (especially medical conditions, including the experience of suffering from cholera) and of the spirit of utter despondency resulting from apparently interminable imprisonment; together with original ts copies (9pp) of the orders issued duing the 'Selarang Incident' in Changi camp, Singapore (August - September 1942). Leaney, a pre-war Regular soldier who was serving as a Sergeant with the 7th Coast Regiment Royal Artillery when he was captured on the fall of Singapore, died in a Japanese prison ship (possibly the RYUKU MARU or HOFUKU MARU) sunk en route to Japan in September 1944 and his papers also include 3 ms letters of tribute and 2 official notifications concerning his fate received by his family after the war.

MakerName
Leaney

Forenames
W J

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

WebStatus
published

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23/06/2006 12:46:31

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DeptName
Documents

IDNO
6404

OtherNumber
97/23/1

ItemName
Private Papers of A E Knights

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Ts memoir (288pp) of his experiences as OC 4th Battalion the Royal Norfolk Regiment (54th Brigade, 18th Division) at Singapore and as a prisoner of war on the Burma-Siam Railway, January 1942 - August 1945, including: landing in Singapore, January 1942; the battle for Singapore Island, February 1942; the surrender and march to Changi, February - April 1942, notably the interrogation of senior officers; incarceration at the Sime Road Camp, April - October 1942; the journey to the Burma-Siam Railway; his appointment as Camp Commandant of an Allied Prisoner of War Camp at Tasao, Thailand, on the Burma-Siam Railway, ?December 1942 - May 1944, and at Tamuang, May 1944 - ?January 1945; in the Officers' Camp at Kanburi, ?January - June 1945, and Nakom Nyok, June - August 1945, when he was liberated; making interesting comments on the poor conditions; food; relations with the Japanese, their mentality, and the best ways of keeping both them and the POWs happy; relations and trade with the Australians, the Dutch, and the local Thai population; the suffering and treatment of the sick; attempts to maintain standards and morale; preventing disease; contacts with "V" Organisation and Boon Pong; the death rate amongst POWs; cattle and chicken farming; setting up a cigarette factory; the Camp library; the Kempeitai Secret Police; Christmas celebrations; a visit by Lady Mountbatten; and mentioning Brigadiers E H W Backhouse and Sir Philip Toosey; Colonel W Harvey; Lieutenant Colonels H Lilley and C MacEachern; and the Reverend C F Allcock. Also included are an extract from his memoir, "Kempeitai on the Prowl" (19pp) and photocopies of 'An Appreciation' of Colonel Knights by Major Robert Hamond (1p), undated, and his Memorial Service (10pp) held in October 1971.

MakerName
Knights

Forenames
A E

Honours
DSO MC MM TD

Style
Lieutenant Colonel

RelatedIWMItems
See also the papers of Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey (93/14/7 & &A).

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

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DeptName
Documents

IDNO
7949

OtherNumber
98/29/1

ItemName
Private Papers of R G McDowall

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Annotated transcription (586pp ts, in three volumes) of an excellent diary kept by him as a Presbyterian chaplain with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the Second World War, covering his experiences as chaplain to the 7th Anti-Tank Regiment in Libya in November 1941, capture by the Germans at Sidi Rezegh at the end of that month and in Italian captivity at Benghazi, Brindisi and Bari (PG 75) until August 1942, then at Viano (PG 29) until November 1942 when he was transferred to Gruppignano (PG 57), describing amongst other things his feelings of alienation from most of his fellow prisoners and the petty, obstructive behaviour of the camp authorities, the effects of the Italian armistice in September 1943 and transfer to Germany via Austria (Spittal, Stalag XVIIIA/Z), spending the rest of his captivity in Stalag IVB (Muhlberg), with observations on the various nationalities in the camp, the interdenominational chaplaincy he helped to establish, deteriorating conditions towards the end of the war, air raids in the vicinity (including the Dresden raids in February 1945), encounters with refugees and concentration camp survivors after the evacuation of Muhlberg in early May 1945, and his eventual return to England; also a bound copy of a university thesis (251pp ts) written by his daughter and largely based on the diary and other family papers, `The Prisoner Padre: The Impact of War on a New Zealand Cleric' (Waikato 1997).

MakerName
McDowall

Forenames
R G

Style
Reverend

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

WebStatus
published

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23/06/2006 12:46:31

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DeptName
Documents

IDNO
8282

OtherNumber
99/31/1

ItemName
Private Papers of F S Robinson

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Ms journal (50pp) for February 1942 - September 1945, begun retrospectively in (?) 1944 and completed after his liberation, kept by an RAOC officer and covering his service with a detachment of troops from the Base Ordnance Depot during the final days of the battle for Singapore (February 1942) and his experiences as a prisoner of war in Changi camp, Singapore, including the Selarang incident (February - October 1942), during the rail journey from Singapore to Banpong (October) and then at various camps on the route of the Burma-Siam railway, notably Chungkai (November 1942 - January 1943), Bankao (January - April 1943), Wampo North (April 1943), Takanun (May - August 1943), Kanburi base hospital (August - October 1943), Takanun again (October - December 1943), Chungkai base camp (December 1943 - May 1944), Nakom Paton sanatorium camp (May - November 1944), Tamarkan (November 1944 - January 1945), Chungkai again and back to Tamarkan (January - February 1945) and finally Kanburi officers camp (February - September 1945), with good descriptions of the accommodation, food, working conditions, incidence of sickness and instances of ill-treatment by the Japanese at each camp, vivid accounts of the Allied air raids on Tamarkan and Kanburi in 1944 - 1945 and some critical references to the conduct of senior British officers in captivity; together with five pro-forma postcards sent home as a prisoner of war, June 1942 - June 1944, and one written following his liberation in September 1945.

MakerName
Robinson

Forenames
F S

Style
Captain

RelatedIWMItems
See DPH DOC 626

RelatedImageFile
RobinsonFS_008282_2.jpg

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
19/09/2006 05:50:09

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IndexPlace
Changi, Singapore
Tamarkan, Thailand
Chungkai, Thailand
Kanburi, Thailand
Nakon Paton, Thailand
Banpong, Thailand
Bankao, Thailand
Wampo North, Thailand
Takanun, Thailand

IndexPlaceDetail
Selarang, Changi camp

IndexEvent
Selarang incident, Changi camp 1942, Singapore Island 1942, Malaya 1941-1942, Second World War
Allied air raids on Tamarkan and Kanburi 1944-1945, Thailand, Second World War
Burma-Siam Railway 1942-1945, Second World War
Singapore Island 1942, Malaya 1941-1942, Second World War

PDF
RobinsonFS_008282_2.pdf

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
10385

OtherNumber
01/25/1

ItemName
Private Papers of H Picard

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Two ms letters and a postcard (4pp in French) written between April and July 1940 by the Belgian pilot Henri Picard (serving in the RAF) to a friend in Brussels, referring briefly to wartime events; three ms postcards (3pp in French) written in late 1943 by Picard from Stalag Luft III (Sagan); one undated ms letter (2pp in French) from the friend to him while he was in German captivity, describing amongst other news a meeting between her and Picard's sister (the letter was returned undelivered); two ms letters (6pp in French) dated July 1944 and May 1945 written by Picard's sister and concerning his death at the hands of the Gestapo following his participation in the `Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944; a photograph of Picard; and ms translations of the correspondence (24pp).

MakerName
Picard

Forenames
H

Style
Flight Lieutenant

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

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published

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DeptName
Documents

IDNO
11592

OtherNumber
01/30/1

ItemName
Private Papers of H N Fowler

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Circa 80 informative letters written to his parents between June 1940 - August 1942 whilst a prisoner of war of the Germans, from Dulag Luft, Oflag IIA (Prenzlau), Stalag Luft I (Barth), Stalag Luft II (Litzmannstadt), and from November 1941 onwards Oflag IVC (Colditz), the latter referring to prominent Colditz prisoners such as Douglas Bader and Pat Reid; with several photographs including two portraits of Fowler in uniform.

MakerName
Fowler

Forenames
H N

Style
Flight Lieutenant

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

WebStatus
published

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23/06/2006 12:46:31

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DeptName
Sound

IDNO
4674

ProductionDate
26/Aug/1980

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Marsh, Henry John xxx
Mountbatten, Edwina (Countess)
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan

IndexPlaces
GB, England
MY
MY, SG
SG
SG & Changi
TH
TH & Kanburi <POW Camp>
TH & Kanyu <POW Camp>
TH & Hintoc <POW Camp>
TH & Namuchonyai <POW Camp>
TH & Tarsao <POW Camp>
TH & Tamuang <POW Camp>
TH & Bangkok <POW Camp>
BU

IndexUnits
GB.A & Div, Midland, 48
GB.A & Royal Army Service Corps
JP.O & POW Camp, Changi
JP.O & POW Camp, Kanburi
JP.O & POW Camp, Kanyu 1
JP.O & POW Camp, Kanyu 2
JP.O & POW Camp, Tarsao
JP.O & POW Camp, Tamuang
JP.O & POW Camp, Hintok
JP.O & POW Camp, Namuchonyai

IndexConcepts
FEPOW
Medical services

ShortSummary
British officer served with Royal Army Service Corps in Singapore, 1941-1942. POW of Japanese in Singapore and Thailand, 2/1942-8/1945. Medical and administrative duties in Burma-Thailand railway camps, 3/1943-8/1943

FullSummary
REEL 1 Reasons for joining Territorial Army 2/1939; service with 48th Midland Division, Royal Army Service Corps. Journey to Singapore 7/1941-9/1941; duties as major in charge of supplies. Fall of Singapore 2/1942: remoteness of HQ staff from fighting; muddle; inevitability of defeat; first encounter with Japanese. Changi POW camp 2/1942-3/1943: march to camp; troop divisions; Marsh's work organising supplies; source of supplies; allocation of food; Singapore work parties; crawling past Indian National Army guards; reason for volunteering for Burma-Thailand railway. Train journey to Thailand 3/1943; arrival at Kanburi POW camp.
REEL 2 Thailand POW camps 3/1943-8/1945: Marsh's 'arrests' by Allied officers for disobedience; payment of POWs; pooling money to buy medicines from Thais; POW belief in Allied victory; hopes of rescue; war news from secret radio; methods of maintaining morale; Japanese belief in own war propaganda; news from Delhi radio; dangers of passing on news; role of Kempeitai; move to Kanyu 2 camp; building Burma-Thailand railway cutting; railway work regime; grim life of POWs; demands on sick to work; role of Korean guards under Japanese administration; Koreans later seeking references from POWs; POW illnesses.
REEL 3 Thailand POW camps 3/1943-8/1945: POW illnesses; staying alive on rations; growing tobacco; danger of pride in railway work; sabotage; aspects of Kanyu and Hintoc camps; effects of monsoon; sick POW's will to live; amputation of ulcerated legs; bed bugs; maintaining discipline, Marsh's 'rules', stories of beatings administered by Marsh and consequences; POW resilience; Allied air raids on railway at Namuchonyai; POW deaths travelling on railway; contact with home; Tarsao hospital camp 1943-1944.
REEL 4 Thailand POW camps 3/1943-8/1945: Marsh's administrative work at Tarsao; production of artificial limbs; cholera outbreak; incidents of brutality of Korean guards; burials; reading matter and study classes at Tamuang camp; Marsh's illnesses; lessons of POW experience; meeting father in Kanburi officers' camp 12/1944-8/1945; receiving news of end of war from camp commandant; celebrations; arrival of British Army officer; air supply drops; Marsh's celebration outside camp; handover of Tamuang camp; POWs drowning Korean guards; compilation of war news 1942-1945 for POWs. Welfare work for POWs in Bangkok 8/1945-10/1945.
REEL 5 Bangkok 8/1945-10/1945: expenditure on POW welfare; rounding up Korean guards and punishment of war criminals; Lady Mountbatten's work and Marsh's duties for her. Flight to GB; informing relatives of dead soldiers. Feelings about Japanese: illustration of their lack of compassion; Marsh's public objection to British honour conferred on Hirohito 1971 and support he received. Spiritual effect of imprisonment.

ContextDescription
British Prisoners Of War In The Far East, 1941-1945

Duration
150

NumberOfParts
5

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Marsh, Henry John

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
Marsh-prisoners.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
6011

ProductionDate
21/Jan/1982

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
film: Bridge over the River Kwai

IndexPeople
Gregory, James R xxx
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan

IndexPlaces
GB, England
MY
MY, SG
SG & Yong Peng
SG & Changi
TH
TH & Kanburi
TH & Kwae Noi River
TH & Tamarkan
TH & Kinsaiyok
TH & Chungkai
TH & Konkuita
BU
VN
VN & Saigon

IndexUnits
GB.A & Norfolk Regt, Bn 6
JP.O & POW Camp, Changi
JP.O & POW Camp, Kanburi
JP.O & POW Camp, Tamarkan
JP.O & POW Camp, Kinsaiyok
JP.O & POW Camp, Chungkai
JP.O & POW Camp, Konkuita
JP.O & POW Camp, Saigon
GB.N & Ship, Dorsetshire

IndexConcepts
FEPOW

ShortSummary
British NCO served with 6th Bn Royal Norfolk Regt in Malaya, 1941-1942. POW of Japanese in Singapore, Thailand and Indo-China, 2/1942-8/1945. Worked on Burma-Thailand railway. Hirohito's visit to GB, 1971

FullSummary
REEL 1 Enlistment with Royal Norfolk Regiment 6/1939; mortar work with 6th Battery. Journey to Singapore aboard HMS Dorsetshire; arrival of 18th Division in Singapore 16/1/1942. Fall of Singapore 1/1942-2/1942: chaotic military situation; high Norfolk morale; countering Japanese invasion; sighting Japanese landing craft; difficulties of targetting Japanese troops outside mortar range; engagements with Japanese; lack of Allied air cover; Japanese psychological tactics and deception using British helmets; British bombardment of Yong Peng hill; heavy casualties and withdrawal resulting in low morale; being wounded; capture by Japanese in hospital 15/2/1942.
REEL 2 Singapore 15/2/1942: impressions of Japanese troops. Changi POW camp 2/1942-8/1945: conditions; accommodation; food; work parties; Japanese behaviour. Thailand POW camps 8/1942-1944: train journey to Thailand; description of Kanburi camp; building Burma-Thailand railway bridge over Kwae Noi River; brutality of Japanese engineers; tools; trying to sabotage bridge; obtaining food from Thais; Korean guards; inaccuracies of film 'Bridge over the River Kwai'; Japanese propaganda about POW conditions; work regime at Kanburi; POWs suffering as result of pressures within Japanese hierarchy; Japanese fear of Kempeitai; fate of POW escapees; Japanese punishments; bayonetted POW; supplies bought with pay.
REEL 3 Thailand POW camps 8/1942-1944: improvised cigarettes; POW pay; relations between officers and other ranks; bridge opening and reward to POWs; surviving cholera; POW will to live; organising concert parties to improve morale; playing football; POW casualties in US air raid on Tamarkan camp; safety of British air raids as compared with US; relations between different nationality POWs; stealing food; sympathy for Japanese wounded; Japanese policy of feeding only healthy POWs.
REEL 4 Thailand POW camps 8/1942-1944: lack of contact with home; war news from secret radio; Japanese using Red Cross parcels; railway construction techniques at Kinsaiyok; conditions at Chungkai; completion of railway at Konkuita. Saigon POW camp 1944-8/1945: clearing aircraft landing strips; hearing news of end of war; arrival of Allies and Gurkhas killing Japanese guards; return home. Longterm physical and mental effects of imprisonment. Present day hostility towards Japanese and demonstrations against Hirohito's visit to GB 1971.

ContextDescription
Prisoners Of War in the Far East, 1941-1945

Duration
110

NumberOfParts
4

OtherFormats
Full : 43pp

MakerName
Gregory, James Roland

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Photo of Gregory in 1941 in transcript (SR 244)

RelatedSoundFile
Gregory-prisoners.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
6042

ProductionDate
1/Mar/1982

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Adams, Geoffrey P xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
PC, Sunda Straits
MY
MY, SG
SG & Fort Canning
SG & Changi
SG & Roberts Hospital
SG & Sime Road
SG & River Valley Road
SG & Royal Singapore Golf Club
TH
TH & Ban Pong
TH & Kinsaiyok
TH & Tamarkan
TH & Kwae Noi River
TH & Brankassi
TH & Hindato
TH & Takunun
TH & Krian Kri
TH & Konkuita
TH & Nong Pladuk
BU
JP
JP, Kyushu & Moji
JP & Omuta
JP, Kyushu & Fukuoka
JP, Ryuku Islands & Okinawa
KO
KO & Pusan
MJ
MJ & Mukden
MJ & Hoten
MJ & Dairen
PH
PH, Luzon & Manila
US
US & San Francisco
CA
CA & Nova Scotia
JP, Taiwan & Takao

IndexUnits
GB.A & Royal Army Service Corps
GB.A & Royal Army Service Corps & Rifle Bn 1
GB.A & Div 18
FR.N & Ship, Felix Roussel
JP.N & Ship, Hioki Maru
JP.O & POW Camp, Changi
JP.O & POW Camp, Sime Road
JP.O & POW Camp, River Valley Road
JP.O & POW Camp, Ban Pong
JP.O & POW Camp, Tamarkan
JP.O & POW Camp, Kinsaiyok
JP.O & POW Camp, Prangkassi
JP.O & POW Camp, Krian Kri
JP.O & POW Camp, Konkuita
JP.O & POW Camp, Nong Pladuk
JP.O & POW Camp, Hindato
JP.O & POW Camp, Takunun
JP.O & POW Camp, Omuta
JP.O & POW Camp, Fukuoka 17
JP.O & POW Camp, Mukden
JP.O & POW Camp, Hoten

IndexConcepts
FEPOW

ShortSummary
British officer served with Royal Army Service Corps in GB and Singapore, 1939-1942. POW of Japanese in Singapore, Thailand, Japan and Manchuria, 2/1942-8/1945. Worked on Burma-Thailand railway, 10/1942-6/1944

FullSummary
REEL 1 Reasons for joining Royal Army Service Corps on outbreak of war 1939; labouring and clerical work. Obtaining commission 1941 and posting with 18th Division. Diversion of convoy to Far East 12/1941; Felix Roussel's actions against Japanese aerial attacks on convoy in Sunda Straits 2/1942. Fall of Singapore 2/1942: arrival 6/2/1942; chaotic conditions in docks; formation of No 1 Rifle Battalion; Adams' illness and hospitalisation; Japanese bombardment of Singapore; British lack of maps; civilian evacuation; hospital discharge and search for unit.
REEL 2 Fall of Singapore 2/1942: escape from Japanese strafing; shelling of RASC headquarters; ban on firing guns to help conceal position; lack of duties for Adams; burying soldier; British destroying own guns; surrender and first encounter with Japanese; water supply problem; Adams acquiring kit; impossibility of escape; morale and attitude of troops towards surrender; troops' nickname for Fort Canning; lack of Allied air cover; responsibility for defeat. Singapore POW camps 2/1942-10/1942: march to Changi; dysentery epidemic and conditions in Roberts hospital; transfer to Royal Singapore Golf Club.
REEL 3 Singapore POW camps 2/1942-10/1942: Sime Road camp; work on Japanese shrine; varying nature of Japanese supervision; Japanese flypast; conditions of working on shrine; issue of tainted meat; benevolent Japanese guards. Thailand POW camps 10/1942-6/1944: train journey to Thailand; flooding at Ban Pong camp; march to Tamarkan; nature of camp commandants; Burma-Thailand railway bridge construction; swampy conditions of Kinsaiyok camp 5/1943; cholera epidemic; food; heavy rock cutting work; Japanese callousness towards sick; Adams' vehicle repair work.
REEL 4 Thailand POW camps 10/1942-6/1944: stealing materials to construct still at Kinsaiyok; saline drip for cholera patients; seeing pathetic condition of F Force POWs; Adams' cattle droving mission along Kwae Noi river; jungle bivouac; cholera victims; encountering new herd of cattle; hospitality of Australian POW camp at Brankassi; rest at Japanese Army staging post Takunun; beauty of environment; following river course; Adams' river accident.
REEL 5 Thailand POW camps 10/1942-6/1944: Kwae Noi river cattle drove; discovering corpses of railway workers at Krian Kri; Chinese cholera victim's plea to be shot; arrival at Konkuita camp and looking after cattle; anthrax outbreak;quarantine and destruction of herd; impossibility of escape; POW diet benefitting from slaughtered cattle; helping Japanese infantryman; problems of crossing railway with cattle; seeing Japanese war propaganda films; Japanese ceremony to mark completion of railway 10/1943; sad fate of POW F Force; state of Japanese wounded.
REEL 6 Thailand POW camps 10/1942-6/1944: Japanese callousness to own wounded at Konkuita camp and POW kindness to them; preservation of railway locomotives in Tokyo museum; size and composition of Hindato camp; road construction work; easy camp life; letters from home; British air surveillance of railway; POW work at Japanese Army brothel; disposal of abattoir waste; Japanese sensitivity about POW skit on Germans at Nong Pladuk; organisation of move to Japan; news of sinking of POW boats; selection for Japan and Japanese discovery of diary. River Valley road POW camp, Singapore 6/1944: rat catching; food; civilian attitude towards POWs. Journey to Japan aboard Hioki Maru 6/1944: embarkation; overcrowding.
REEL 7 Journey to Japan aboard Hioki Maru 6/1944: food; attack on convoy; service stop in Manila bay; trading with Filipinos and gleaning news of D Day; deck concert and Japanese ban on patriotic songs; accidental wounding of POW; medical test at Takao, Formosa; submarine hazards of convoy to Japan; shipboard discomforts; latrines; Adams; beating for 'stolen' pumpkins; Korean guard stealing POWs' sugar; attack by US submarine Tang on convoy in sight of Japan.
REEL 8 Hioki Maru 6/1944: convoy loss from US attack; arrival in Japan; passing through customs; dispersal of POWs. Japan POW camp 6/1944-4/1945: train journey to Fukuoka 17 camp, Omuta; accommodation; theft of food by US cooks; Japanese requiring POWs to sign declaration about POW ships; Japanese drill instruction; Japanese uniform issue; Japanese civilian poverty; work at zinc foundry; Adams' assignment as camp records officer; amusing camp regulations; Australian, Dutch and US POWs in camp; camp commandant's responsibility for POW deaths; dangers of coal mining work; POW corruption and collaboration.
REEL 9 Japan POW camp 6/1944-4/1945: cut in rations at Omuta; POWs' hard work and long hours; POW funerals, cremations and disposal of ashes; civilian hostility towards POWs; post war executions of camp commandants; Japanese fear of POW rising; POW confinement shelters; coping with winter cold; cigarette issue; corrupt US POW clique; brutal POW punishments; New Year's celebration; POW betrayal of US POW and his torture by Japanese; rewards from Red Cross parcels for hard work.
REEL 10 Japan POW camp 6/1944-4/1945: war news at Omuta; death of POW friend; Adams' asthma; POWs' poisoning from bad whale meat; eating dog meat; brutal and fatal POW punishments; character of guards and a particularly brutal guard; POW pay; Japanese selling Red Cross supplies to POWs; stress of close supervision by guards; POW illnesses and lack of medicines; surgical facilities; eating clams and frogs; Japanese attempts to disaffect POWs; Japanese retribution for Adams winning at table tennis; Japanese cosmetic propaganda for Red Cross visit.
REEL 11 Japan POW camp 6/1944-4/1945: continues story of Japanese propaganda for Red Cross visit; US accidental sinking of Red Cross ship Awa Maru; US air raids; issue of Red Cross food; segregation of officers 4/1945; fear of execution on beach; air raid alarm on Fukuoka dock. Move to Manchuria 4/1945: sea journey to Korea and parading of POWs in Pusan; train journey to Mukden, Manchuria. Hoten POW camp 4/1945-8/1945: history of camp; help given to newcomer POWs; Adams concealing Union Jack and passing it to senior officer.
REEL 12 Hoten POW camp 4/1945-8/1945: accommodation; POWs exchanging Burma-Thailand railway experiences; news of war; Adams' dysentery; food; Red Cross food issue; sand fly plague; nature of Japanese supervision; news of VE Day; entry of US servicemen into camp; fighting by civilian factions in Mukden; liberation by Soviet troops 20/8/1945; Adams' duties as camp guard; absence of revenge on Japanese guards; US air supply drops; POWs overeating.
REEL 13 Manchuria 8/1945-9/1945: inflation; looted Japanese supplies and souvenirs; Adams' souvenirs. Journey to GB 9/1945-11/1945: train journey to Dairen 9/1945; reception by US Navy; journey aboard Relief; typhoon at Okinawa; informality of US organisation of POW dispersal; flight to Philippines; US hospitality at Manila; journey to United States aboard General Robert Lee Howze; obstructiveness of British Army in San Francisco; journey home via Nova Scotia; arrival in GB 11/1945; POW annoyance over non payment of Army pay.

ContextDescription
Prisoners of War in the Far East, 1941-1945

Duration
380

NumberOfParts
13

OtherFormats
Full : 137pp

MakerName
Adams, Geoffrey Pharaoh

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

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Photos of Adams (1939 and 1948) in transcript SR 247 and 248

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750
900

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17 November 2006

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Educational use only

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
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IDNO
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ProductionDate
1982

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
aircraft, British: Vickers Wellington

IndexPeople
Foinette, Eric Norman xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
FR
FR & Boulogne
DE
DE & Hamburg
DE & Sylt
DK

IndexUnits
GB.F & Sqdn 12
DE.O & POW Camp, Spangenburg
DE.O & POW Camp, Stalag Luft III, Sagan
DE.O & POW Camp, Stalag III, Luckenwalde
DE.O & POW Interrogation Centre, Dulag Luft, Frankfurt

IndexConcepts
POW

ShortSummary
British officer served as navigator with 12 Sqdn, RAF in GB, 1941-1942; POW in Spangenburg, Stalag Luft III, Sagan and Stalag III, Luckenwalde, 1942-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Aspects of enlistment and training with RAF in GB, 1940-1941: background to call up, 1940; character of navigators training; behaviour of instructors; opinion of operating in Vickers Wellington. Recollections of operations as navigator with 12 Sqdn, RAF, 1941-1942: joining squadron, 8/1941; character of Merlin engined Vickers Wellington; wartime history of squadron; initial raid on Boulogne; navigation problems during raid on Hamburg; anti-aircraft damage over Sylt; bailing out over Denmark. Aspects of capture and interrogation at Dulag Luft, Frankfurt, 1942: handing over to Germans by Danish Police; question of missing opportunity to escape; removal to Dulag Luft, Frankfurt; attempts to gain information at Dulag Luft.
REEL 2 Continues: question of negligible effects o bombing on Germany. Aspects of period as POW at Spangenburg, 1942: POW morale; relations between new RAF POWs and long standing army POWs; character of POW castle; escape attempts; relations with French POWs. Recollections of period as POW in Stalag Luft III, Sagan, 1942-1945: appearance of camp; German precautions against escape from huts; accommodation in huts; ablution facilities; layout of camp; confining aircrew to camps; news of war's progress; corruption of German guards; punishment of German civilian contractor after contact with POWs; organisation and discovery of Great Escape.
REEL 3 Continues: reaction of POWs to execution of Great Escapers; German attitude towards POWs behaviour; effect of execution of Great Escapers on escape attempts; selection of those to be executed; RAF investigations of executions; baiting of German over Nazi salute; incident of stealing of German officer's pass; camp organisation; character of Foodacco scheme; disposal of camp money; efficient working of Foodacco scheme; lack of conflict between POWs.
REEL 4 Continues: question of discipline; POW gambling; lack of sexual problems; POW activities; female roles in plays; acquisition of theatre equipment; personal studying and effect on his later career; contact with home; use of RAF code to send intelligence; receiving escape materials from GB; German photography; his comfortable POW room; German treatment of Russian POWs; attitude towards approach of Russian Army.
REEL 5 Continues: evacuation of camp, 27/1/1945; character of journey from Sagan to Stalag III, Luckenwalde including problems with prolapse. Aspects of period as POW at Stalag III, Luckenwalde, 1945: appearance and character of POWs; favoured treatment of officer POWs; liberation by Russians, 5/1945; impressions of Russian troops; fight to take control of former German officers camp; food supply problems; problems between Americans and Russians over repatriation; promotion during period as POW; attitude towards German guards; effect of imprisonment on his attitudes; cases of psychological breakdown.

ContextDescription
Prisoners of War in Europe, 1939-1945
Air Operations, 1939-1945: Bomber Offensive, 1939-1945

Duration
150

NumberOfParts
5

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Foinette, Eric Norman

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

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750
900

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TheCamps
EscapeAndEvasion

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Published

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17 November 2006

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IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
8276

ProductionDate
1984

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
book: The Great Escape

IndexPeople
Nelson, Thomas Robert xxx
Bushell, Roger
Long, 'Cookie'
Brickhill, Paul

IndexPlaces
GB, England
DE
DE & Gorlitz

IndexUnits
DE.O & POW Camp, Stalag Luft III, Sagan
DE.O & Geheime Staats Polizei <Gestapo>
DE.O & Prison, Gorlitz

IndexConcepts
POW

ShortSummary
British officer POW in Stalag Luft III, Sagan in Germany, 1942-1945 including participation in Great Escape, 3/1944

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of period as POW during tunnelling preparations for Great Escape at Stalag Luft III, Sagan, 1943- 1944: move to new compound; potential for escapes; how he was selected for working with X escape committee under Squadron Leader Roger Bushell; German counter tunnelling activities; incentives for tunnelling; tunnel dimensions; construction of tunnels and half way houses; discovery of tunnel 'Dick'; removal of excess sand; use of trolleys; design and use of air pumps and ventilation system.
REEL 2 Continues: tunnel lighting system; selection of escape date; selection of escapers and their order of escape; categories of escapers; method of dispersing of tunnel sand; fate of three tunnels; length and direction of 'Harry' tunnel. Recollections of escape during Great Escape from Stalag Luft III, Sagan, 3/1944: assembling of escapers, 24/3/1944; problems with exit of tunnel; method of escape from tunnel exit; method of hauling escapers in tunnel.
REEL 3 Continues: lighting problems during escape; collapse of tunnel during Cookie Long's escape; exiting tunnel; discomforts of season; decision to seek shelter after two days; capture by civilians; removal to Gorlitz Prison; conditions on imprisonment; conduct of interrogations by Gestapo; disappearance of escapers from prison; return to Stalag Luft III and punishment; attitude of POW's to solitary confinement; German announcement of fate of escapers; opinion of Paul Brickhill's book 'The Great Escape'; fate of escapers.
REEL 4 Continues: second hand account of German discovery of tunnel; POWs reaction to execution of escapers; opinion of reasons for German execution of POWs; question of what part his surname played in his survival; reasons for planning such a large escape; conduct of Gestapo interrogations and his response; conditions in Gorlitz Prison, 3/1944-4/1944.
REEL 5 Continues: POW lack of respect for Gestapo as result of earlier camp searches; explanation of term 'Hard Arser'; conduct of lottery to choose escapers.

ContextDescription
Prisoners Of War In Europe, 1939-1945

Duration
150

NumberOfParts
5

OtherFormats
Full : 42pp

MakerName
Nelson, Thomas Robert

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

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008276s02.mp3
008276s03.mp3
008276s04.mp3
008276s05.mp3
Nelson-prisoners.mp3
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Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
TheCamps
EscapeAndEvasion

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Published

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17 November 2006

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Sound

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IWM copyright

Nationality
British

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Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
10643

ProductionDate
22/Mar/1989

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
aircraft, British: Vickers Wellington
glider, British: Colditz Glider

IndexPeople
Welch, Patrick Palles Lorne Elphinstone xxx
Bushell, Roger

IndexPlaces
GB, England
NL
NL & Amsterdam
DE

IndexUnits
GB.F & Operational Training Unit 25
GB.F & Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
DE.O & POW Camp, Stalag Luft III, Sagan
DE.O & POW Camp, Oflag IV C, Colditz
DE.O & POW Interrogation Centre, Dulag Luft

ShortSummary
British NCO served as flying instructor in GB, 1938-1942; officer served as pilot with 25 Operation Training Unit, RAF in GB, 1942; POW at Stalag Luft III, Sagan and Oflag IV C, Colditz in Germany, 1943-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Aspects of period as sergeant flying instructor with RAF in GB, 1939-1941: background to enlistment in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 1938; attitude towards Nazi Germany; reaction to outbreak of Second World War; role as flying instructor in GB, 1939-1941. Recollections of operations as officer with 25 Operational Training Unit in GB, 1942: acting as second pilot during Thousand Bomber Raids, 1942; flying Vickers Wellington; shooting down over Netherlands, 1/8/1942. Aspects of capture and interrogation at Dulag Luft in Germany, 1942: capture by Germans; escape attempt in Amsterdam.
REEL 2 Continues: interrogation at Dulag Luft; train journey to Stalag Luft III at Sagan. Recollections of period as POW at Stalag Luft III at Sagan, 1942-1943: role making escape equipment; memories of Roger Bushell; details of his escape from camp; escape equipment carried; attempt to steal aircraft; recapture by Germans on airfield attempting to start aircraft. Recollections of period as POW at Oflag IV C, Colditz, 1943-1945: reasons for being sent to camp; physical setting of castle.
REEL 3 Continues: account of his involvement in construction of Colditz Glider; question of myth and accuracy of presentation of Colditz story; friends he had in camp; POW mentality; access to radio; liberation by US Army; question of adjusting to daily life after period as POW; attitude towards Germans. Question of how his aircraft was shot down over Netherlands.

ContextDescription
Air Operations, 1939-1945: Bomber Offensive, 1939-1945
Prisoners Of War In Europe, 1939-1945

Duration
90

NumberOfParts
3

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Welch, Patrick Palles Lorne Elphinstone

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

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750
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TheCamps
EscapeAndEvasion

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17 November 2006

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Access
Educational use only

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
15350

ProductionDate
27/Apr/1995

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
film: Bridge Over The River Kwai

IndexPeople
Long, Jim xxx
Long, Bill
Toosey, Philip
Taylor, Jim
Adams, Geoffrey
Long, Bill
Smith, Victor
White, Arthur
Long, Len

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight
GB, England & Norwich, Norfolk
GB, England & Aldershot, Hants
GB, England & Jedburgh, Northumberland
GB, England & Alderley Edge, Cheshire
GB, England & Manchester, Lancs
GB, England & Portsmouth, Hants
GB, England & Bristol, Glos
GB, Scotland
FR
FR & Calais
FR & Dunkirk
MY
MY & Singapore
MY & Singapore, Klooni Hill
MY & Singapore, Bukit Timah Road
IC
IN
IN & Bombay
ZA
ZA & Capetown
TH
TH & River Kwae Noi

IndexUnits
GB.O & Boy Scouts
GB.O & Civil Air Guard
GB.O & Hall, Letton
GB.O & Radio Station, Wick
GB.A & Pioneer Corps, Coy Holding
GB.A & Div 18
GB.A & Div 18, Headquarters
GB.A & Cameron Highlanders, Bn 2
GB.A & Camp, Ahmednagar, India
GB.O & Ship, Oronsay
GB.O & Ship, Empress of Asia
US.O & Ship, Leonard Wood
US.O & Ship, Felix Rousel
MY.O & Rubber Plantation, Tek Hoc
JP.O & POW Camp, Kanburi, Thailand
JP.O & POW Camp, Tamarkan, Thailand
JP.O & POW Camp, Ban Pong, Thailand
JP.O & POW Camp, Changi, Indian Lines, Singapore
JP.O & POW Camp, Sime Road, Singapore
GB.A & Camp, Larkhill
GB.A & Reserve Z
GB.A & Camp, Bulford

IndexConcepts
POW

ShortSummary
British private served with Royal Army Service Corps in GB, France and Belgium, 1939-1941; served with 55 Coy, Royal Army Service Corps in GB and Singapore, 1941-1942; POW in Singapore and Thailand, 1942-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Family background in Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, 1916-1939: family; education; employement; membership of Boy Scouts; sense of community in Carisbrooke; volunteering on outbreak of war; love of motorcycles, trips with friend Arthur White and instructing new motorcyclists; brief membership of Civil Air Guard. Enlistment and medical with Royal Army Service Corps, 11/1939. Aspects of training with Holding Coy, Pioneer Corps in GB, 6/1940-8/1940: reception with unit at Clacton on Sea; procedure on arrival and pay.
REEL 2 Continues: relationship between recruits; daily regime during training; drill, rifle handling, discipline, physical fitness and route marches; rifle and bayonet training; use of Lewis machine guns, Boyes anti-tank guns and Mills hand grenades; typical meals; map reading, trench digging, gas chamber training; butchery course at Aldershot; kitchen work at Clacton on Sea.
REEL 3 Aspects of period with Royal Army Service Corps in GB and France, 11/1939-5/1940: enlistment and posting to unit, 11/1939: company and field kitchen composition at Portsmouth; crossing to France c3/1940; conditions at Calais; butchery work and meat supply; poor hygiene of field kitchens; kitchen duties; lack of in-service training or drill .Recollections of period with Royal Army Service Corps in France, 5/1940: retreating troops and air attacks signifying German advance; sight of demoralised and undisciplined retreating troops; retreat to Dunkirk; arrangements for feeding troops; conditions at Dunkirk, German Air Force attacks, lack of systematic destruction of equipment and vehicles; abandoning vehicles and making way to beach; nature of JU 87 dive attacks; reaction to scene on beach; wading out to small boat; German Air Force attacks on voyage to Folkestone.
REEL 4 Aspects of period with 2nd Bn Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders at Inverness, Scotland 8/1940: posting to unit after period with Holding Coy, Pioneer Corps at Clacton 6/1940-8/1940: discipline and training with Cameroons; character of daily training routine; role as motorcycle machine gunner; opinion of Norton motorcycle with side car; composition and reconnaissance role of motorcycle section within company; training 'schemes' in countryside; daily duties of 'despatch rider'and motorcycles preferred; picket duties at Wick radio station 10/1940. Aspects of period with 55 Coy, Royal Army Service Corps, 18th Div in GB, 1940-1941: circumstances of transfer to unit joining unit at Letton Hall near Norwich; assignment as dispatch rider with Royal Artillery regts including 135th Field Regt, Royal Artillery and convoy duties as despatch rider.
REEL 5 Continues: daily duties as despatch rider with 18th Div Headquarters; nature of unit personnel; recreations; move of 18th Div to Scotland winter 1940-1941; freezing conditions at billets in Jedburgh; move to Alderley Edge near Manchester early 1941; issue of overseas kit and reasons for dislike; inoculations. Voyage from GB to India, 1941-1942: embarkation aboard HMT Oronsay at Bristol 10/1941: conditions on board; lifeboat drill; transfer at Novia Scotia to US ship Leonard Wood; conditions on board; submarine scare in South Atlantic.
REEL 6 Continues: shore leave in Capetown, South Africa; Christmas dinner in Indian Ocean; impression of Bombay; conditions at Ahmednagar Camp; embarkation aboard Felix Rousel; US attitude towards Japanese; composition of 18th Div convoy, rumours of strike aboard Empress of Asia; Japanese air attack on convoy in Straits of Malacca, manning Bren gun on deck, sight of dive bombing attack on Felix Rousel, destruction of Empress of Asia and scene at end of attack.
REEL 7 Continues: Recollections of operations with 55 Coy, Royal Army Service Corps, 18th Div in Singapore, 2/1942: arrival in Singapore 5/2/1942; location of company in Tek Hoc rubber plantation; daily Japanese bombing raids and lack of Allied air cover; troop movements in expectation of Japanese landing; dangers as despatch rider of night-time movement of troops; arrival at Klooni Hill, Bukit Timah Road c10/2/1942; assignment to pick up lorry of barbed wire; taking up infantry position in trenches on Klooni Hill with older brother Bill; Japanese spotter aircraft directing Japanese mortars and impossibility of movement during daytime; intensification of Japanese attack; glimpses of Japanese advancing and retreat of Cambridgeshire Regt; reputation of Japanese troops and their preparedness for jungle warfare; situation 14/2/1942, ceasefire order for Allied toops and Japanese continued mortar attacks; finding NCOs in air raid shelter; finding company dead; loss of motorbike and kit; surrender 15/2/1942, treatment by Japanese and obtaining food.
REEL 8 Recollections as POW in Singapore, 1942: march to Changi 15/2/1942; physical condition on arrival; accommodation in Indian lines; POWs self-organisation and educational classes; POW numbers; maintaining unit organisation and officers wishing to maintain hierarchy; rush of civilians to leave Singapore 10-15/Feb and story of two soldiers who deserted and escaped to Ceylon; requirement to bow to Indian National Army guards at Changi; food, sea bathing and conditions; move to Sime Road camp; duties of working party making shrine to Japanese dead; witnessing beating of British soldier by Japanese for disrespect; camp leisure activities; officers' maintaining privileges; knowledge of Japanese beatings; Japanese Army discipline.
REEL 9 Continues: minor beatings received; return to Changi late 5/1942; Selarang Square incident 8/1942 including squalid conditions on Square, signing parole under duress and further realisation of Japanese lack of value of life; detailed for working party; being loaded into steel railway trucks; trading possessions with Japanese and Chinese in Changi. Aspects of train journey from Singapore to Thailand, 1942: train journey up country; food stops; conditions in trucks; POW with dysentery. Recollections of period as POW in Thailand 9/1942: water-logged conditions at Ban Pong; march to Kanburi; effects of poor diet; prickly heat sores; arrival at Tamarkan 9/1942; method of clearing jungle; organisation of POWs; working in section under Lieutenant Geoffrey Adams.
REEL 10 Continues: opinion of Adams and of officers in general and of Captain Jim Taylor; Japanese requiring working parties chosen by British officers; various duties including cookhouse; cooking rice, vegetables available and poor quality rice; means of supplementing rations; symptoms of diet deficiences including skin complaints, prickly heat sores and beri-beri; incidence of dysentery and malaria; causes of leg ulcers and improvised treatments; sleeping arrangements; building camp huts; daily routine.
REEL 11 Continues: daily work routine; rations; latrines; washing in river; drinking water; arrival of POWs allocated to build bridge over River Kwae Noi; building wooden bridge under supervision of Japanese engineers; brutality of Korean guards illustrated by story of a particular guard called 'The Undertaker'; method of driving wooden piles into river bed and practical problems encountered; preparation of wood by Thais; simplicity of wooden bridge design; POW injuries during construction; building of railway embankment between Kanburi and Tamarkan; requirement to move cubic metre of earth per day and Japanese making POWs work harder; cruel Japanese 'jokes' played on POWs; POWs' favourite duties; laying railway track; opinion of camp commander Lietenant Colonel Toosey, his help to men and being prepared to stand up to Japanese; opinion of Japanese camp commandant 'The Frog'.
REEL 12 Continues: construction of concrete piles for steel bridge; method of excavation of river bed using divers' helmets, conditions and dangers of work underwater; making concrete for pillars and means of building up piles; effect of work on skin and working without clothes; Long's improvised underwear 'snaprag' and lack of other clothing; speed of construction of concrete pillars; building concrete 'shoulders'; rivetting steel bridge and dangers for POWs; means of allocation of duties; dislike of carrying railway sleepers; difficulty of shovelling shingle from railway bed; feelings about completion of bridge; opinion of film 'Bridge Over The River Kwai'; incident of Long and brother Bill reacting to Japanese guard's mistreatment and guard's subsequent behaviour; chance meeting with younger brother Len 7/1943; building bridges further up line; volunteering with Vic Smith for party as driver/mechanic; working in stores hut at railway halt at Kanburi 8/1943-9/1943.
REEL 13 Continues: composition of party at Kanburi under Japanese guards; POWs killed and damage in Allied air raid; POWs detailed to deal with unexploded bomb; Consolidated Liberator attack on steel bridge; more lenient regime at Kanburi; Thais giving POWs food; extent of communication between Japanese and Allies; move northwards 3/1944-1/1945; clearing jungle and beginning construction of airstrip; Long's spinal malaria and lack of medicine; digging tunnels in rock as ammunition stores and water wells; duties of wood parties providing fuel for trains; difficulties of working in dense tropical vegetation and wildlife dangers.
REEL 14 Continues: sight of tiger in camp; insect problem including red ants, leeches, lice, rats and flies; desirability of bees' nests; POWs' health; outbreak of cholera during 'speedo' period 1943 exacerbated by Tamils' lack of hygiene; spread of cholera; friendship with Vic Smith; POWs detailed to repair damage caused by Allied air raids; officers ordered by Japanese to work on railway during 'speedo' period; Kempetai discovery of wireless in Kanburi officers' camp.
REEL 15 Continues: tension amongst Korean and Japanese guards during 1945; rumours about progress of war; Japanese punishments witnessed including description of bamboo cage treatment and POW being put into underground hole during monsoon; POWs' mental health, need for survival instinct and incident of a despatch rider simply giving up; improving morale during 1945 Aspects of liberation and return to GB, 1945: arrival of Allied paratroopers at camp 8/1945; surrender of Japanese in camp; situation in camp and relations with former captors; uniform issue, supplies and inability to eat; Allied Dakotas landing on POW constructed airstrip; airlifting POWs to Rangoon; hospitalisation to restore health; voyage aboard hospital ship Oronsay to GB: arrival at Southampton 28/10/1945; lack of medical examination and being classed A1 despite weight and poor digestion; home leave; extent of wife's knowledge concerning his whereabouts during war.
REEL 16 Continues: POW postcards home and cards from wife; Japanese pilfering Red Cross parcels; difficulties of readjustment to civilian life; need to be outside; problems with pschological effects of imprisonment; medical problems encountered; discharge; later medical and psychological examination at Haslar and subsequent award of disability pension c1980; effects of POW experiences on his brothers; recurring longterm psychological effects of POW experience; wife's attitude towards his condition; attitude towards Japanese and Koreans. Period with Heavy Transport Coy, Royal Army Service Corps, 1952: call-up with Z Reserve; assignement to unit at Larkhill Camp; attending scheme at Bulford Camp during winter flood; standing down after five weeks.

ContextDescription
Prisoners of War in the Far East, 1941-1945

Duration
470

NumberOfParts
16

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Long, Jim

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
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Long2-prisoners.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
TheCamps
InTheBag

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
15558

ProductionDate
6/Jul/1995

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Cole, Arthur Westcombe xxx
Hope, Tom

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Broadstone, Dorset
DE
DE & Hamburg
DE & Berlin
DE & Dortmund
DE & Nüremberg
DE & Essen
DE & Gorlitz
DE & Lübeck
DE & Gorlitz
DE & Lübeck
US
US & Cleariston
CA

IndexUnits
GB.F & Sqdn 158
DE.O & POW Camp, Stalag Luft III, Sagan
GB.F & Flying Training School, British, Cleariston, US
GB.F & RAF Lissett

IndexConcepts
POW

ShortSummary
British officer served as bomb aimer with 158 Sqdn, RAF in GB, 1943; POW in Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany, 1943-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in Broadstone, 1923-1939: family; education; reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939. Aspects of enlistment and training with RAF in GB, Canada and US, 1941-1943: background to volunteering for RAF; flying training at 5 British Flying Training School, Cleariston, US; illness and loss of confidence in landing aircraft; training postings; opinion of instructors at 5 British Flying Training School; hospitality of US civilians towards RAF personnel; reception from civilians in Canada; keenness to get onto operations; inter-personnel relationship problems with his first crew at operational training unit. Recollections of operations as bomb aimer with 158 Sqdn, RAF in GB, 1943: facilities at RAF Lissett; high unit morale; memories of squadron commander Tom Hope; crew member who couldn't cope with mental strain of operations; physical and mental strains of night time operations; use of alcohol when not on operations.
REEL 2 Continues: luxuries available to aircrew and treatment by civilians; composition of his crew; role as bomb aimer; problems of seeing night fighters; reaction to first operation against Dortmund, 5/1943; raid on Essen; near collision with Avro Lancaster; attack by two night fighters during raid on Nüremberg; character of operations; raid on Berlin in which his aircraft was shot down by night fighter, 31/8/1943; escape from stricken aircraft; landing in cabbage patch.
REEL 3 Continues: Aspects of capture and interrogation by Germans, 1943: attempt to evade capture; treatment on capture; first interrogation and attempted humiliation of carrying parachute through streets; interrogation with hidden microphone that was later broadcast; period in Dulag Luft Interrogation Centre; interrogation and threat that Gestapo would shoot him. Recollections of period as POW at Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany, 1943-1945: character of camp including golf course; importance of Red Cross parcels; role in escape organisation for Great Escape; reasons why he didn't escape; reactions to news of executions of escapers; reasons why so many tried to escape.
REEL 4 Continues: attitude towards German shooting of Great Escapers. Aspects of trek from Stalag Luft III, 1945: trek to naval camp near Bremen; transfer towards Lübeck, spring 1945; RAF Hawker Typhoon attack on POW column; trek from Stalag Luft III to Gorlitz; method of keeping warm in barn; loss of cigarettes to Russian POWs. Reflections on Second World War, 1939-1945: memories of raids on Hamburg, 1943; 1945 Election and significance of class mix in RAF; question of national unity; resentment of low paid servicemen to higher paid civilians going on strike; role of government propaganda in national unity; effect of Winston Churchill and Lord Haw Haw's speeches; role of Bomber Command ins Second World War.

ContextDescription
Air Operations, 1939-1945: Bomber Offensive, 1939-1945
Prisoners of War in Europe, 1939-1945

Duration
120

NumberOfParts
4

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Cole, Arthur Westcombe

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
015558S01.mp3
015558S02.mp3
015558S03.mp3
015558S04.mp3
015558S05.mp3
015558S06.mp3
015558S07.mp3
Cole-prisoners.mp3
Cole-airwarfare.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
TheCamps
StrategicBombing

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
17312

ProductionDate
5/Mar/1997

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Tucki, Joseph xxx
Bader, Douglas

IndexPlaces
GB, England
PL
PL & Brzozow
PL & River Vistula
PL & Krakow
PL & Chelm
DE
DE & Burgendreich

IndexUnits
PL.A & Infantry Regt 44
DE.O & POW Camp, Oflag VII A, Murnau
DE.O & POW Camp, Oflag IV C, Colditz
DE.O & POW Camp, Oflag, X C, Lübeck
DE.O & POW Camp, Oflag VI B, Dessel

ShortSummary
Polish officer served with 44th Infantry Regt in Poland, 1939; POW in Oflag VII A, Murnau, Germany, 1939-1941; escaped to Hungary, 1941 and returned to German captivity; POW in Oflag IV C, Colditz, Oflag X C Lubeck and Oflag VI B, Dessel in Germany, 1942-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of operations as officer with 44th Infantry Regt, Polish Army in Poland, 9/1939: outbreak of Second World War, 1/9/1939; under German Air Force attack in Bydgoszcz area, 9/1939; orders to withdraw behind River Vistula, 9/1939; inferiority of Polish Army equipment; crossing River Vistula to reassemble in Chelm area; ammunition shortage; wounding in leg; capture by German troops; handling of Polish wounded by Germans, 9/1939; ambush of his German captors by Poles, 9/1939; aid received by Polish civilians; hospitalisation in Krakow. Recollections of period as POW in Oflag VII A, Murnau, 1940-1941: transfer to camp from Oflag VIII , Kreuzburg, 20/1/1940; arrival in camp; attempt to strengthen his leg in gymnastics group; plans for escape; acquiring old Prussian uniform and its modification; accumulation of other escape equipment; aims of escape. Recollections of escape from Oflag VII A to Hungary, 9/1941: escape from camp dressed as German NCO. 12/9/1941.
REEL 2 Continues: hiding out dressed as civilian; aid from fellow Pole on work party; effect of his picking up lucky horseshoe in Nicklesdorf, Austria; aid from Polish forced labourers to cross into Hungary; crossing into Hungary and aid from priest; arrest by Hungarian Police; how Hungarian Police handed by to Germans and return to Oflag VII A, Murnau. Period as POW in Oflag VII A, Murnau, 1941-1942: punishment on return to camp; abandoning new escape plan; recapture during second escape attempt and removal from camp. Recollections of period as POW at Oflag IV C, Colditz, 4/1942-8/1943: reception by other POWs on arrival, 14/4/1942; composition of POW nationalities in camp; camp regime; POW hunger and supplementing rations; Polish escape tunnel.
REEL 3 Continues: work on tunnel; ultimate fate of Polish tunnel; his thwarted escape plan; POW code system for transfer of information to Polish Underground; recreation and examples of camp humour; degradation of Polish traitor; escape statistics; personalities among Polish POWs. Recollections of period as POW in Oflag X C, Lübeck and Oflag VI B, Dessel, 1943-1945: removal to Oflag X C; tunnel escape attempts at Lübeck; removal to Oflag VI B at Dessel; murder of Polish escapers and accidental bombing of Dessel by RAF; liberation of camp by US Army at Burgrendreich. Story of period as engineer in GB after Second World War. Start of Colditz Association, 1950.
REEL 4 Continues: Post war visits to Poland. Reflections on period as POW in Germany, 1939-1945: memories of Douglas Bader; refusal to meet Stalin's son at Oflag X C, Lübeck; RAF bomb which dropped on Oflag VI B at Dessel; attitude towards German captors; physical condition on liberation; nature of POW communications with Polish Underground; method of thwarting German inspection of POW parcels. Lack of discrimination against him in GB after Second World War.

ContextDescription
Nazi Europe, 1933-1945
Prisoners of War in Europe, 1939-1945

Duration
105

NumberOfParts
4

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Tucki, Joseph

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Photograph (1997) in file

RelatedSoundFile
017312S01.mp3
017312S02.mp3
Tucki-prisoners.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
Polish

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
E. 96 / 47

ItemName
FULCRUM
JAPANESE LABOUR CAMP SURVIVORS ASSOCIATION

FullSummary
No. 49, Spring 1996
<n 49-54, 58> Spring/1996-Summer 99

ProductionCompany
Japanese Labour Camp Survivors Association
Japanese Labour Camp Survivors Association, c/o A. Titherington, Oriel House, Church Green, Witney, Oxfordshire OX8 6AW

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 14:38:33

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

FormatDescription
quarterly
quarterly

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
E. 97 / 53

ItemName
The Colditz Society Newsletter

FullSummary
Vol. 2 <n 8-9, 11-22, 24> 11/94-7/95, 5/96-12/96, 4/1997-3/2000, 12/2000
vol 3 <n 25-31> 6/2001-Winter/2003

ContextDescription
See also Detour.

ProductionCompany
Colditz Society c/o Michael Booker (Editor), 50 Edgehill Road, Mitcham, Surrey CR4 2HU

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 14:38:33

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

FormatDescription
irregular

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
EPH 581

ProductionDate
1943

ItemName
nail, railway, Japanese

ObjectType
misc

IndexHistPeriod
Second World War

FullSummary
Second World War period commemorative nail used in the linking of the two ends of the Burma-Siam railway near the Three Pagodas Pass at a Japanese ceremony to mark its completion, October 1943.

RelatedImageFile
EPH_000581.jpg

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

UncatTransferDate
04/09/2008 05:51:25

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
nail engraved with Japanese characters.

Access
On display at IWM London

IndexPlace
Burma
Thailand

IndexEvent
Burma-Siam Railway 1942-1945, Second World War

Theme
Burma 1942-1945
Far East 1939-1945

CoLStatus
Ready

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
OMD 3889

ProductionDate
1974

ItemName
George Cross & GC

ObjectType
medal

IndexPeople
Newnham, L A (Colonel)

IndexUnits
GB.A & Middlesex Regt

IndexHistPeriod
Second World War

FullSummary
Colonel Lanceray Arthur Newnham (3 August 1889 - 18 December 1943). Newnham was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment in 1910, and served with distinction in various staff posts in the First World War, winning the Military Cross. As a professional soldier, he stayed in the army between the wars and, in 1940 was appointed Chief of Staff to the British General Officer Commanding, Hong Kong. Taken prisoner when Hong Kong fell to the Japanese in December 1941, Newnham was held in the officer's camp at Argyle Street. By 1943, he with others had established contact with Chinese agents of the British Army Aid Group (BAAG) in China and smuggled messages to the BAAG about Japanese troops, shipping and aircraft strengths and the results of American bombing. When the Japanese discovered the existence of this intelligence organization in the camp, Newnham was arrested on 10 July 1943. For five months he was starved, tortured and constantly interrogated but, despite acute mental and physical suffering, Newnham resisted all attempts to extract information from him and, on 1 December, was sentenced to death. Though now very sick, he retained his courage and self-control to the end. He was executed on 18 December 1943. The announcement of Newnham's posthumous George Cross appeared in the London Gazette of 18 April 1946. Newnham is buried in Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong Kong.
Colonel Newnham's wife, who had accompanied him to Hong Kong when he was posted there in 1940, was interned in Stanley Camp. Mrs Newnham survived internment and was released when Hong Kong was liberated.

ProductionCompany
Royal Mint

RelatedIWMItems
OMD 3890-3899 : OMD 3900 : OMD 3901-3904 : DOCS.See file for full details and the diaries of Colonel Newnham and his wife Mrs P Newnham held by the Department of Documents.

RelatedImageFile
OMD_003889_1.jpg

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

UncatTransferDate
05/09/2007 05:50:23

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
silver cross, of Greek form, with the mounted figure of St George (on horseback) and the dragon in a central raised roundel surrounded by a band bearing the text: 'FOR GALLANTRY'. At the base of the circlet bearing the text is a small Tudor rose. The whole superimposed upon an edged cross. In each angle formed by the arms of the cross a small 'GVI' cipher. The cross is suspended from a straight (laurelled) suspender bar and the ribbon is dark blue, often referred to as 'Garter' blue. This example is named and dated on the reverse to 'Colonel L.A.Newnham. M.C. Middx.R. 1946'. An official replacement, this Cross is engraved with the letter “R”

Access
On display at IWM London

Theme
Far East 1939-1945
Prisoners of War, Far East 1939-1945

CoLStatus
Published

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
CUR 12635

ProductionDate
1947

ItemName
POW currency, two shillings and sixpence, Great Britain

ObjectType
currency

IndexPeople
Longman D (Capt) TD

IndexPlaces
Great Britain (High Garret Camp, near Braintree, Essex)

IndexHistPeriod
Second World War
1945 - 1975

FullSummary
Prisoner of War (POW) Camp 78 was High Garrett Camp, near Braintree, Essex. Paper POW currency, printed by HMSO (His Majesty's Stationery Office) was introduced in 1943, and issued by the War Department. The first mass influx of POWs into Britain during the Second World War occurred in 1941 with the arrival of over 100,000 Italians captured in the North African campaign. Up to this time the POW camp system was not extensive, since it contained only small numbers of German naval and aircrew POWs. The next large influx of both Italian and German POWs was after the surrender of Axis forces in North Africa in May 1943, although many POWs went to American and Canadian camps. As the war progressed the camp system was reorganised several times.

ProductionCompany
HMSO

RelatedIWMItems
CUR 12636--CUR 12639

RelatedImageFile
CUR_012635.jpg

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

UncatTransferDate
23/02/2009 05:51:12

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
POW currency, two shillings and sixpence, Great Britain. British issue POW camp currency note of 2/6d denomination. Stamped in ink on the note is 'No. 78 POW' and the dates 'Jul 1947' and 'Nov 1947'.

Access
Access by prior appointment

IndexPlace
Braintree, Essex, England, UK

IndexPlaceDetail
High Garrett Camp, Braintree, Essex, England, UK

Theme
Prisoners of War, Europe 1939-1945
British Home Front 1939-1945

CoLStatus
Ready

DeptName
Film

IDNO
NTB 271-2

ProductionDate
4/11/1916

ItemName
TOPICAL BUDGET 271-2 [Main]

IndexObjects
operations, Russian military - movement: ship
prisoners of war, Austro-Hungarian - custody
medical, British military - hospital: Saint Dunstan's

IndexPlaces
Greece & Salonika, Macedonia
Russia

IndexUnits
SU.A
GB.O & Saint Dunstan's School for the War Blinded

ShortSummary
I. Russian troops arrive in Salonika.
II. Austrian POWs in a Russian camp.
III. Blinded soldiers are taught new skills.

FullSummary
I. 'RUSSIANS IN MACEDONIA. Russian troops disembarking from the transport to help the Allies in Macedonia.' Small paddle-steamer crowded with Russian troops runs alongside quay and men disembark. 'HELP FOR THE ALLIES. Russian Staff Officers watch their men landing. These troops are some of the finest in the Russian Army.' Officers look on as men disembark. Allied troops also watch the arrival of the Russians - on the quayside a British Army band plays to welcome them.
II. 'RUSSIAN INTERNMENT CAMP. One of the camps in Russia where the Germans captured in the great offensive are being sent.' HA.LS over POWs standing in ranks - they appear to be Austrian rather than German. More prisoners are joining the queues as the camera pans slowly right to show the extent of the crowd.
III. 'ST. DUNSTAN'S. The Hostel for blind soldiers where they are taught various trades. The dexterity the men show in repairing boots and making baskets is amazing.' MS as two men work on repairing boots - the nearest man is nailing on a new heel-piece but has positioned his nail askew - he removes it and tries again. MS of men making wicker baskets - CUs of one with a nearly completed basket and another just starting work on the base plate. 'BLIND SOLDIERS TYPEWRITING. Men receive instruction in manipulating the keyboard of a typewriter.' CU of a man typing - a woman instructor is placing his fingers on the keys. MS same - the woman does not look at what she is doing and is probably herself blind. Other men type and operate (?) comptometer.

Duration
3 mins

Format
P 2/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
305 ft

ProductionSponsor
War Office

ProductionCompany
Topical Film

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
English

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
TheCamps

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM