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 Mr. Steve Waters, the new representative of the Australia Commerce and Industry Office in Taipei as an ex-officio member of our board of directors as of September this year.
Steve replaces Frances Adamson who left Taiwan in the summer for a posting in London. We want to express our appreciation to Frances and her husband, Rod Bunten - formerly Deputy Director-General of the British Trade and Cultural Office, for their interest and support for our Society over the past three years and we wish them well and look forward to working with Steve and the ACIO staff in the days ahead.
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The passing of a friend…
We would like to inform our readers of the passing of a dear friend, Mr. Lawrie Philpott, the New Zealand rep for our POW Society. Lawrie passed away on September 5th - the day after our special service to commemorate the evacuation of the Taiwan POWs from Keelung Harbour. Lawrie was involved in that wonderful operation as a member of the Royal New Zealand Navy on loan to the HMS Bermuda.
In the past few years Lawrie has been instrumental in helping us locate former Taiwan POWs living in New Zealand, and he was able to help us trace New Zealand’s only Taiwan POW. He worked very hard to tell the story of the Taiwan POW camps there as well.
He also helped to put former POWs who had been transported on the New Zealand Hospital Ship Maunganui – which carried POWs from Taiwan to Manila, and later Australia and New Zealand - in touch with former crewmen.
He was a dear friend and I will miss him. Our deepest sympathy goes out to his wife Rita and the family. Another brave seaman has “crossed the bar”.
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Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society Issues Commemorative Stamps
On August 15th at 11:15am the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society held the unveiling of its special stamp sheet to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. The event was held in conjunction with the opening of the special exhibition on the “Japanese POW Camps on Taiwan in World War II” put on by the Society at the Taiwan National Armed Forces Museum in Taipei. (See article on page 6.)
Acting Director-General of the ROC Armed Forces Military History and Translation Dept. Mr. Fang Yung, and Taiwan POW Camps Society Director Michael Hurst, pose at the unveiling of the Society’s commemorative stamp sheet.
The commemorative sheet features ten different NT$3.50 Taiwan cultural stamps along with wartime photos and a map showing the location of all of the Taiwan POW camps. The photos include scenes of the camps and the men, and also the Japanese signing the surrender on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay - September 2, 1945.
Also featured are colour photos of the four memorials that have been erected to the Taiwan POWs at their various locations on the island.
This is a very unique set of stamps as the Republic of China - which moved to Taiwan in 1949, following the usurpation of the mainland by the Communists, was one of the five big Allies that helped defeat the Axis powers in WW II. No “official” stamp from the ROC was issued this year, so this will be the only souvenir set that commemorates the 60th Anniversary of the End of WWII to come out of Taiwan. |
