Provides a summary of military service details including whether or not the person was a prisoner of war. The Roll of Honour records the names of service men and women who died during or as a result of service with Australian military forces.

Over 22,000 Australians became prisoners of war of the Japanese in south-east Asia : Army (about 21,000); RAN (354); and RAAF (373). The Army prisoners were largely from the 8th Division captured at the fall of Singapore . Australian troops were also captured on Java, Timor, Ambon and New Britain.

For much of its existence Changi was not one camp but rather a collection of up to seven prisoner-of-war (POW) and internee camps, occupying an area of approximately 25 square kilometres. Its name came from the peninsula on which …

More than 30,000 Australian service personnel, civilians and their allies became prisoners of war (POWs) between 1940 and 1945. Australia also imprisoned its enemies during the Second World War. The Germans and their Italian allies captured Australians during the Mediterranean, North African and Middle East campaigns.

2025年1月20日 · The work of prisoner-of-war (POW) doctors imprisoned by the Japanese is well known, with men such as Edward “Weary” Dunlop, Bruce Hunt and Rowley Richards celebrated as heroes of the many prison camps scattered across South-East Asia during the Second World War. 1 While accounts of captive medical officers have focused on the general ...

This is a part of the series, Australians in the Pacific War. It gives a narrative and pictorial account of life in POW camps north of Australia during World War II. Includes Changi, the Burma-Thailand Railway, Sandakan, Timor, Ambon, Rabaul and Japan, and the prisoners who died at sea.

2024年3月19日 · More than 30,000 Australians became prisoners of war (POWs) between 1940 and 1945. The Germans and Italians captured Australians during the Mediterranean and Middle East campaigns, and also at sea in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Over 22,000 Australians became prisoners of war of the Japanese in south-east Asia. The wave of Japanese victories, ending with the capture of the Netherlands East Indies in March 1942, left in its wake a mass of Allied prisoners of war, including many Australians.

The POW is Private Charles Edwards, 2/19th Battalion, 2nd AIF. Private Edwards was captured near Darit Sulong, Malaya, on 22 January 1942 shortly after his unit had been involved in the battle of Muar.

After the Allies surrendered in Singapore in February 1942, thousands of Australian soldiers and nurses were captured as prisoners of war (POWs). The total number of Australians incarcerated by the Japanese from 1942-45 reached over 22,000.