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Post by rowan on Oct 5, 2019 8:24:50 GMT -5
Hi Jeremy!
Thanks for the translation and characters. I've figured it all out! It is a Japanese Registration card from the first husband of my grandma.
It includes details of where he was captured, in what city, in which camps he has been held, his occupation etc.
He was captured on march the 9th 1942 in Java. He was held (probaly in a prison) for a couple of months. On the 15th of August 1942 he was transfered to a camp in the city Malang.
On the 15th of January 1943 he and 3000 other prisoners of war were transfered to Singapore by a boat called "The Harugiku Maru 2". The ship arrived in Singapore on January 18, 1943. He was detained for two weeks in the Changi camp (prison).
After two weeks he was transported on February 3, 1943 with train number 46 from Singapore to Thailand. He arrived in Ban Pon on the 8th of February 1943 and was immediately transported to the next camp.
The internment card shows that his camp was camp no 2. This is one of the camps on the Burma railway. At "other information" it is written in Japanese: Transferred to Taichung POW camp No. 2. This means that he was transferred to camp Tamarkan, also known as Tha Makham. However, it regularly exchanged with camp Chung Kai. This meant that he worked back and forth on the two camps.
On the 30th of August 1945 liberation forces came to Bangkok.
Tha Makham was also the place where he met my grandma. They married shortly after (7 February 1946). Now I'm wondering what my grandma was doing during the ww2 and what she was doing near the Tha Makham camp.
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