Other Pages
What follow are links to other pages and resources on this site which visitors may wish to explore.
This is a searchable list of all those who were inmates of Pudu Prison from when it was first used by the Japanese to house prisoners of war on 22 January 1942 to the start of October nine months later when it was emptied of POWs. To the best of my knowledge, all but a handful of inmates were connected to British or Australian forces. There were at least a couple of New Zealanders and a couple of Dutchmen. There were also members of the various Malay Volunteer units.
This is another searchable list of the Australians imprisoned at Pudu Prison, Kuala Lumpur, from late February 1942 to October of that same year. Reg Newton was the senior AIF commander in that period.
This is a searchable list of the camps on the Railway. There are many variations on spellings and the distances between Railway camps. I have only recently purchased a copy of Rod Beattie’s book, ‘Death Railway’, and I take that to be definitive on this subject so there is likely going to need to be some further updating and modification soon.
This is a searchable list of Japanese personnel (including Koreans and other nationalities) who worked on the Burma-Thailand Railway and who featured in postwar affidavits, war crimes trial documents, memoirs or other books. It started out as an attempt to put proper names to nicknames and then took on a life of its own. Since the list needs some explanation, I will add a document explaining how to read it.
This is a searchable list of the Australians who were at Ohama #9-B when the war ended on 15 August 1945. Reg Newton was the senior AIF commander in the camp from 8 September 1944 until the POWs’ movement back to Australia began on 15 September 1945.
This is another searchable list showing all POWs who were at the Ohama #9-B camp when the war ended on 15 August 1945. For the record, at that time there were three Americans, one Dutchman, 138 Britons and 249 Australians, making a total of 391 inmates.
As at 15 March 2025, there is only one name on this list and I have put that there as a holding measure and to test the system. My intention is to make a searchable database containing the details of all the 924 individual prosecutions conducted by Australian authorities in the Pacific from VJ Day to 1951. This list should have links to one to three trial summaries in PDF form and to photographs of most of them. Like the other lists accessed from this page, the trial list will be searchable; in addition to the summaries and photos just mentioned, the final list will have a few lines summarising each case, it will show the location where the alleged offences occurred, where and when the individual was tried, the verdict and sentence. It is going to take a while to get this list into a workable form so, if you happen to stumble on this page before it is complete, please give me a bit of time and return because I hope it will be a valuable resource when finished.
In November and December 2022 I travelled to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand to follow in ‘Roaring Reggie’s’ footsteps. It proved to be a fascinating, an eye-opening and a very instructive undertaking. This page has photos from that trip and photos from Reggie’s time in these locations. Of particular interest will be photos from the Battle of Muar area and photographs of camps and construction works on the Railway, with a real highlight being the visit to Tonchan South. This part of the trip was done with the assistance of Terry Manttan and under the expert guidance of Andrew Snow, both of whom are from the Thai-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi.
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