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Spring/Summer 2004 Never Forgotten Vol. 5, Number 1 SPRING 2004 The Official Newsletter of the TAIWAN P.O.W. CAMPS MEMORIAL SOCIETY The Year That Was!!! The Steeles with former guard and friends at Heito Camp Sharing the story of Kukutsu Camp with local residents Maurice Rooney - as I will remember him The new Kukutsu POW Memorial [See Photos’ Stories on Page 3] Former Taiwan POW, John Emmett REMEMBRANCE WEEK 2004 Be sure to mark the week of November 10 – 17 on your calendars and in your date books, and plan to be with us for this great event which features a POW banquet and the memorial service at Kinkaseki. We hope that former POWs and their families will make an effort to come as we have a special program prepared for these guests. If you are interested, and for more information, please contact the Society by mail or email at the addresses shown on page 2 of this newsletter. Hope to see you in November! TAIWAN POW CAMPS MEMORIAL TH E AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF SOCIETY THE TAIWAN POW CAMPS P.O. BOX 665, YUNG HO MEMORIAL SOCIETY. TAIPEI 234, TAIWAN, R.O.C. TEL. 8660-8438 FAX. 8660-8439 * to continue the search for survivors of E-MAIL [email protected] the Taiwan POW camps from 1942 – 45. * to search for the locations of the TAIWAN POW CAMPS MEMORIAL former Japanese POW camps on the island of Taiwan. SOCIETY - BOARD OF DIRECTORS - * to ensure the memory of the Taiwan MBE – Society Director - Michael Hurst, VP and General Mgr. J. Chen Enterprises Taiwan; POWs is not forgotten. Writer; Historian * to help with the organization of, and Stuart Saunders - President, Esdesign Industrial participate in, the Commonwealth and Design Allied memorial service for the Taiwan Jack Hsu - Supervisor. Admin Dept., SEMPO, DORTS, Taipei City Gov’t. POWs at Kinkaseki every November. Prof. Jerome Keating, PhD. - Writer; Historian; * to help educate the people of Taiwan Professor in a little-known part of their history. Gerard Norris - Pharmaceutical Executive * to provide information to researchers, scholars, museums and POW groups HISTORICAL ADVISORS. on the Taiwan POWs’ story. Prof. Jack Geddes - Professor, Historian, Writer, Missionary, Canada Harry Blackham – former FEPOW, England TAIWAN POW CAMPS MEMORIAL POW REPRESENTATIVES. SOCIETY ON THE ‘NET ! UK - vacant We welcome you to visit our website. There you will Australia - Sid Dodds find a list of all the POW camps that were on Taiwan, USA - Geoff Monument and by clicking on the name on the list, you will be able New Zealand - Lawrie Philpott to read more about the camps and the men who were interned in them. We also have an Honour Roll with the names of many of the former Taiwan POWs. EX-OFFICIO. Derek Marsh - Director-General, British Trade and Please visit our homepage at - Cultural Office, Taipei www.powtaiwan.org Frances Adamson - Representative, Australian Industry and Commerce Office, Taipei Please give us your comments, questions and suggestions. Charles Finny - Director, New Zealand Commerce and Industry Office, Taipei Our email address is - Ted Lipman - Director, Canadian Trade Office in [email protected] Taipei * * * * * * * * * * * of the TAIWAN POW CAMPS LOGO MEMORIAL SOCIETY From a FEPOW . Our logo - a poppy cross superimposed on a map of “It is not necessary to exaggerate or Taiwan - was chosen because in the fall of 1998 the embellish on the stories of the Far returning POWs laid poppy crosses at all the former East Prisoner of War camps or the campsites they visited. The poppy cross is recognised men who were interned in them – the worldwide as a symbol of remembrance to war story is unbelievable enough as it is ! veterans. 2 2003 + . the Year in Review by Michael Hurst MBE So much has happened this past year since our last time we were able to dedicate the Taiwan POW Memorial newsletter that I hardly know where to start with this report. Tree at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire (see story on page 6), and also to pay a visit to former POW Maurice Beginning in February 2003 we participated in a special Cunningham who lives in Birmingham. event to highlight the Kukutsu POW Camp in the hills south of Hsintien. The county government held an open house in I particularly wanted to see Maurice to show him some the area and we were invited to share the story of the POWs photos that I had taken of the area of the former OKA Camp and the former camp with the local community. This led to a that we had been trying so hard to find. Upon seeing the great deal of interest in the POWs’ story and a drive to get a photos he felt that this was the area, and as it fit the new site established for the Kukutsu POW Memorial stone description that has been given to us by other survivors of which had to be relocated due to a construction project. In that camp as well, we now feel that at last we can confirm the weeks and months that followed a location was found the location of the last camp. (See story on page 5). and a base for the new memorial was designed. Throughout the year we did further research at several of On February 17 this year we finally got the former the camps – Taihoku Mosak #5, Inrin and Inrin Temporary Kukutsu POW Memorial stone re-mounted into the new Camps, Shirakawa Camp and Toroku Camp in September permanent base that was constructed late last year. A (see story on page 8). I was also privileged to address the ceremony to re-dedicate the newly mounted memorial stone students at Fu Ren University on two occasions to introduce will take place on May 16, 2004. More to come on that later. them to the Taiwan POWs’ story. In March we had a visit from Kent Steele and his wife We also had a visit by Mr. Chang, the Head of the Vivian from Canada. Kent’s father Lt. William Paton Steele Academia Historica, Taiwan’s highest government research of the Royal Engineers had been a POW in the Heito Camp institute, in the fall, seeking our co-operation in helping in the fall of 1942 for several months before being moved on make the story of the Taiwan POWs known to the people of to Japan where he remained for the rest of the war until Taiwan. We are currently working on that project as well. liberation. Then it was our annual Remembrance Week activity Lt. Steele had told his family that there was a guard at the from November 12 – 20 with former POW John Emmett of Heito Camp who he thought must have been a Christian as Brampton Canada in attendance. (See story on page 4). he gave him some verses from the Bible to cheer him up one day when he was feeling particularly down and despondent. In the past few months we have been working with the We related this story to one of the former guards we know management and staff of the new museum in Chinguashi in Pingtung and he said that it would have been him as he with regards to getting the POW display up so that everyone was the only Christian he knew of. He had felt sorry for a lot who visits the museum will know of the POWs and their story – not only at Kinkaseki, but the other camps as well. of the POWs and often tried to cheer them up or slip them a cigarette through the bamboo fence. We are still in negotiations with regards to placing the We had the pleasure of taking Kent and Vivian down to fourth POW memorial at the site of the Heito Camp in the Heito camp for a visit and also to meet his father’s Southern Taiwan, and continuing research on the crash site former guard. It was a wonderful time of fellowship and of the PB4Y-1 shot down in the sea off the southern tip of remembrance, and another opportunity for reconciliation the island. In the coming months we are also planning to get more information about the camps onto our website. which we are glad to have a part in. On April 3rd I was informed of the sudden passing of my Longer range projects involve further work on a dear friend Maurice Rooney. It came as a real shock to me, permanent Taiwan POW Museum, putting our artifact as it was to many of our FEPOW friends. I flew to the UK to collection on the website, and co-operating on the be at his funeral, which was attended by many of his friends production of a documentary on the Taiwan POWs. and former POW mates. The service was very moving and Somewhere in all of this, I hope to continue work on the while of course a sad occasion, it was also a celebration of book on the Taiwan camps and the stories of the men who the life of a man who was loved by so many, and who were interned in them, and hope to finish it by the end of the year if at all possible. So it’s going to be a busy time indeed. contributed so much to the happiness of his family and those he came in contact with, as well as the FEPOW community We are still finding former Taiwan POWs every month, in the Norfolk area. As the UK representative for the Taiwan and we encourage anyone who was a POW, or knows of POW Camps Memorial Society for five years, he also made someone – family or friend, who was, to contact us, as we many friends with the former Taiwan POWs and their want to know more about you or your loved one.
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