Camps

July Top Story

Thailand-Burma Railway Camps

Chungkai

Cemetery at Chungkai

Cemetery at Chungkai

March 1945

Church Hut at Chungkai

Kanyu

Cemetery at Kanyu

Christmas at Kanyu 1942

Non Pladuk

Christmas Day 1943

Xmas Greetings to Both my Darling Wife & Baby

In Thailand Phil & Pat & though this day seems so dismal & unrealistic, it is brightined by the thoughts & love of my darlings. God Bless You my Dears, Pray next year he will allow us to spend it together

XXX

Fred

Xmas Menu at

P.O.W. Camp. Non Pladuk

Thailand

Breakfast
Rice Porridge - Fish & Rice Risole

Lunch
Stew & Rice - Pork Risole

Dinner
Pork Stew & Rice - Meat & Rice Risole

Java Camps

Tandjong Priok

St Georges

Tandjoeng Priok - November 1942

Supplied by Capt.George Duffy

My father, along with a few others was instrumental in actually constructing a small chapel which they named St. George's at Tandjong Priok camp. It had carved woodwork and even stained glass windows were constructed as a labour of love by the prisoners. Many of these materials were either prised out of reluctant Jap guards or stolen from buildings outside the camp en route for working parties. After the war the camp was bulldozed along with the church but the stained glass windows were saved. They now adorn the wall of the Anglican Jakarta Cathedral along with an inscription. One of the men who helped build and salvage the windows, my father has been trying to trace to see whether he is still alive.

John Baxter