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• MEMBERS OF THE KENPEITAI also known as KEMPEITAI  (JAPANESE SECRET POLICE) & HIKARI KIKAN (JAPANESE MILITARY POLICE) AT  BANGKOK ROYAL TURF CLUB RACECOURSE WAITING FOR TRANSPORT TO THE PRISONER OF WAR (POW) CAMPS
• Dutch New Guinea. Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) captured during the attack on Hollandia show jungle boots to United States Military Policeman George Ivill of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN, DEC 1945 – A YOUNG CHINESE GIRL POINTING OUT A JAPANESE AT AN IDENTIFICATION PARADE OF SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS HELD AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE CHINESE CIVILIAN CAMP.
• Former BTR Guards awaiting trial, Thailand
• ‘Mad Mongrel’ a Korean guard in Thailand Camps, on Railway, much hated by POWs – was sentenced to hang at War Trials
• Punishment Hole for POWs used at Camps, the Burma end of Burma-Thai Railway
• The medals of Bill Attenborough who perished at Ranau having marched from Sandakan in 1945 were stolen from  Bill’s mother in 1970s have been found and generously returned to the family, Bernadette Cowley in Melbourne March 2021.
• WX6841 John Stewart ‘Stewie’ Smith
• POW Strawb Dyson’s mother receives news her son is safe and well in 1943.
• This is the 1911 Broome wedding of ‘Strawb’ Dyson’s parents. WX7577 Archibald Henry Dyson was recovered from Niihama Japan.   In January 1945 Strawb had both his legs pinned between a mine ore cart and the mine wall and suffered serious injuries.
• Squance had been working on Sumatran Railway where conditions were similar to Burma-Thai Railway, except during the last 12 months of captivity there little or no food. Tropical illnesses killed 100s of POWs.  Squance and other seriously ill POWs are flown from Singapore to Guildford  – the then Governor, Sir James Mitchell greets Squance.
• MacArthur signing at the Surrender 2 Sept 1942 on board USS ‘Missouri’ – standing behind US General Wainwright & British General Percival.  Please read further about this story