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Harukoe (Haruku). Harukoe (Haruku). Translation of writings from Doctor Springers diary first published in Holland 1946. Edited by J G Lee.…
Haruku. Haruku. "Stranger than Fiction". An account of young lives changed forever. By Amanda Johnston (Daughter of the late Flt. Sgt.…
Haruku. Died 25.9.43. Cecil Ernest Head was born on 27th March 1906, the younger son of Major Ernest Arthur Head RE and Ethel Annie Head. He was a journalist from 1926 with Fairchild Publications Inc, Paris, and Century Press, London.…
However, they were not to remain at this location but were transported via small motorboats on to a muddy shore with rain-drenched vegetation that was Haruku.…
He subsequently found himself a POW on the hell island of Haruku building an airstrip. Tom gives a chilling account of his time on Haruku, suffering unimaginable privations beyond human endurance.…
As mentioned earlier, large groups of POWs from camps in the Batavia area and Tjimahi are subsequently transported back to Surabaya where they are to join the C group on 'stand by' for shipment to camps in Ambon, Haruku and Flores.…
Written by one of the few survivors of the WWII Japanese Death Camps in Indonesia-Haruku, Ambon and Muna, this inspiring book recounts the horrifying events endured by Allied Prisoners of War in the Far East.…
In those slave-labour camps at PELAU on the island of HARUKU, at LIANG on the island of AMBON and at AMAHAI on the island of CERAM (now spelled Seram or Serang) and during the final disastrous attempts to return the survivors to Java, including the terrible…
FEPOWs were prisoners on the Thai/Burma railway, the Sumatra railway, the Sandakan Death Marches, in copper mines in Formosa, steel factories in Japan, building roads in Burma, air strips on Ambon, Haruka, Java, Rabaul, New Guinea and the Solomons.…
Haruku/Ambon and Moluccas (Spice Islands). amanda@dcodetranslations.co.uk. Welfare Grants. Grants are available from the FEPOWs’ Central Welfare Fund for all FEPOWs, wives and widows.…
Haruku/Ambon and Moluccas (Spice Islands). amanda@dcodetranslations.co.uk. Welfare Grants. Grants are available from the FEPOWs’ Central Welfare Fund for all FEPOWs, wives and widows.…
The remains of those buried on Haruku were also transferred to Ambon. But the cemetery also contains the graves of Australian servicemen who died during the Japanese invasion on Ambon and Timor.…
Haruku/Ambon and Moluccas (Spice Islands). amanda@dcodetranslations.co.uk. Welfare Grants. Grants are available from the FEPOWs’ Central Welfare Fund for all FEPOWs, wives and widows.…
and by 10th March, after being in action against enemy aircraft many times, the remnants of the Regiment were captives of the Japanese Imperial Army, and subsequently helped to build the Railroad from Burma to Siam and the airfield on the infamous isle of Haruku…
Harugiku Maru. Harugiku Maru. The Harugiku Maru was used for carrying prisoners and troops to Japan.On 26th of June 1944 she was sunk. In Memory Of Those Lost. ALLEN Fred. Stoker (British). AMBURY Edward. Teleg (British). ARNOLD Royston.S.…
And on 26th April 1943, it is believed that over 6,000 prisoners of different nationalities were sent to Ambon, Haruku, Ceram and Flores. Transportation of men from Java to different destinations continued throughout 1944.…
Such was the case with the 'Harukiku Maru' (formerly the 'SS Van Waerwijk') scuttled by the Dutch but refloated by the Japanese. Late on 25.6.44, the prisoners at Gluger Camp embarked on this ship which was part of a convoy heading for Japan.…
