POW's

[whiteout7]

Fair to say there was quite a bit of confusion of where POW's were kept especially if they were in the Phillipines or on Hell Ships. I wonder if Alexander C Tobitt would appear as a prisoner at Changi for a short time before being moved to the Phillipines? He may have also been other places too?

On this page it looks like survivors of the sinking were picked up by other unknown Japanese vessels and taken on to Haito POW camp in Japan
http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/Hell_Ships/Hofuku_Maru/html/evans-nigel-keith.htm

Others survivors were picked up by an American Submarine and taken to Saipan
http://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/Hell_in_Five/html/sunk_off_manila_1st_time.htm













 

[whiteout7]

As MaxD suggests if you have Findmypast access to original documents I would scroll through the orignal scans with a fine tooth comb and you might be able to trace his exact movements but I would suggest that all the ships in the Japanese convoy were all lumped togeather in one file.

[Cockneyrebel]

What a terrible way to treat prisoners, I was deeply shocked and saddened to read the accounts by the survivors.
Cr

[whiteout7]

Yes absolutely horrific how they were treated. Many of the men themselves never talked about their experiences.

Important though I think that we remember their sacrifices and preserve any records of men that didn't return

[Cockneyrebel]

In light of people recently denying the Holocaust, perhaps subjects about that and the treatment of POW's in the last War should be taught in schools but I guess it wouldn't be pc?
Cr