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. Mark Wilkie to our board of directors as of January this year.
Mark, a South African, is resident in Taiwan and is involved in curriculum development and teaching English in Yunlin County in Central Taiwan. He formerly served in the military and has family members who served in WWII. He is very interested in the POWs’ story and has attended every one of our events since learning about our Society and its work two years ago. We are happy to have him on our team and know that he will be a great asset to us.
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”YORKY” has been found!
Through the efforts of former Taiwan POW Geoff Monument and a friend of the Society in the UK, Peter Dunstan, we recently found out who the Heito POW known as “Yorky” was. He was Pte. Norman Cotterill of the 1st Btn. Leicestershire Reg’t. He came to Taiwan with the first group of British POWs from Singapore in August 1942 and died on October 7, 1942 at age 22, of heat exposure and infection from sunburn - suffered while working as a slave for the Japanese sugar company. Today his remains lie in Sai Wan Bay Cemetery in Hong Kong, along with the other former Taiwan POWs who are not forgotten. |
POW HONOUR ROLL
The POW Honour Roll on our website now contains almost 4100 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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Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society to Issue Commemorative Stamps
Shown below is the design for the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society’s 60th Anniversary of the End of WWII commemorative stamp sheet.
The 8 1/4” x 11 5/8” sheet will feature 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.
The TPCMS Commemorative Stamp Sheet
This will be 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 will be 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.
We would like to know how much interest there is in these stamps. At present we only plan to produce 200 sheets. If you would like to pre-order a sheet, the cost will be NT$300 or US$10.00 per sheet including postage to anywhere in the world. [PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY MONEY WITH YOUR PRE-ORDER – we will deal with that later.] Just write or email and tell us how many sheets you would like and we will reserve them for you. Thank you for your support of our Society and our future projects.
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