LIST OF TAIWAN POW CAMPS. . . all found !
1. KINKASEKI #1 (Chinguashi)
2. TAICHU #2 ( Taichung )
3. HEITO #3 (PingTung)
4. SHIRAKAWA #4 (Chiayi)
5. TAIHOKU #5 MOSAK ( Taipei )
6. TAIHOKU #6 ( Taipei )
7. KARENKO (Hualien)
8. TAMAZATO (Yuli)
9. KUKUTSU ( Taipei )
10. OKA ( Taipei )
11. TOROKU - (Touliu)
12. INRIN - (Yuanlin)
13. INRIN TEMP. (Yuanlin)
14. TAKAO ( Kaohsiung )
15. CHURON ( Taipei ) |
Welcome…
We are pleased to welcome Ms. Clare Fearnley and Mr. Gordon Houlden as new members of the Society’s ex-officio Board of Directors. Clare is the newly appointed Director of the New Zealand Commerce and Industry Office in Taipei, replacing Mr. Charles Finny, and Gordon takes over the reigns at the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei from former Executive Director Ted Lipman. We thank Charles and Ted for their support and wish them well in the future and now look forward to working with Clare and Gordon in the days ahead. |
"YORKY" – who was he?
Former Taiwan POW Geoff Monument recently wrote and said that he remembered a POW at Heito Camp whom everyone called “Yorky”, and that he was the first death at the camp in the fall of 1942.
He said he never knew the man’s real name and thought it would be nice - if someone did, and could tell us so that we could enter his record correctly in our Honour Roll.
If anyone has any knowledge of this man or what his full name could have been, please contact us with as much information as possible including his rank and regiment. |
POW HONOUR ROLL
The POW Honour Roll on our website now contains almost 3800 names of former Taiwan POWs. It is searchable, thus making it easier to find names and details of the former POWs. Click on the section entitled “THE MEN” to view the Honour Roll. |
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“Museum of Gold” Opens
at Chinguashi (TP)
Thursday November 4 – after several years in planning and development, the Museum of Gold, located in the village of Chinguashi has opened. . . Included among the displays in the new mining museum is a special one featuring the story of the allied POWs brought here to work as slaves in the copper mine. Their story is portrayed through pictures and artifacts supplied by Michael Hurst MBE of the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society, so that Taiwan people will know more about this little-known part of their history, and also as a permanent tribute to the men who suffered such hardships and died here. . . As the inscription on the POW Memorial Wall states - “May none of us ever forget their sacrifice”.
The main display wall with photos and artifacts
The POW “Memorial Wall”
Visitors show great interest in thePOW display at the museum
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