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850101
Lance Sergeant
Sydney Henson
1916/11/08 - Born Nottingham
Son of Alfred and Elizabeth Henson
Royal Artillery
13/5 Search Light Regiment
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
Sydney’s Transport as a PoW
1942/04/04 - Transported overses in Nissyo Maru to Saigon, French Indo-China
With 1125 PoWs
Commander Lt-Col. Frances Edgar Hugonin, 3 H.A.A., Royal Artillery
This was the first PoW transport from Singapore
1942/04/09 - Arrive Saigon
On arrival half of the PoWs had dysentery, which had made the journey in the holds very unpleasant.
100 were sent to Hanoi to build an air strip and the rest were used to on and off load cargo from the ships in Saigon Harbour.
1943/06/22 - Transported overland to Thailand with 700 PoWs under Lt-Col. Hugonin
Steamer from Saigon to Mekong River, where they were barged across to Phnom Penh. There followed a very long 400 mile train journey to Bangkok.
1943/07/27 - No. 2 Jungle camp Kinsaiyok
(159km from Nong Pladuk)
PoW No. IV 13198
Camp Commander Lt. Col. Lilley
(Camp Leader Lt-Col. Hugonin)
Lt-Col. Hugonin protested to the Japanese about the shortage of food. They threatened to shoot him if he protested again but he stood firm. He was well respected by the men under him.
1943/07/26 - Tha Sao
1943/10/17 - Railway lines from Burma to Thailand joined near Konkoita
1944/01/06 - Nakhon Pathom
Commander Col. Sainter
1944/07/14 - Transported to River Valley Camp, Singapore
Commander Major Seking
River Valley, Singapore
Commander Col. Sainter
1945/02/02 - Transported to Saigon, French Indo-China in Haruyasa Maru
Camp 10, Saigon, French Indo-China
PoW No. 42186 Serial No. 394
Commander RSM Broadstreet.
Saigon, Thailand Camp 10, French Indo-China (Vietnam)
Camp 10 was situated on the Rue Catinat, which was a main thoroughfare between the native quarter and the French quarter. The huts were of timber construction except for the hospital which was of bamboo structure with an attapi roof. All the huts had electric light.
Rice was still their main diet but they now received meat twice a week and eggs to buy in the canteen, within no time their weight improved.
1945/09/12 - Liberated Saigon Camp when English and Dutch paratroopers entered the camp.
Flown via Bangkok to Rangoon Hospital and Recuperation
1945/10/23 - WO417/98, Casualty List No. 1891. Previously shown on Casualty List No. 943 as reported Prisoner of War now Not Prisoner of War. Previous Theatre of War, Malaya.
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Information
Japanese Transport
Thailand Burma Railway
KEW Files:- WO 361/2022, WO 361/2001, WO 361/2169, WO 361/1103, WO 361/1987, WO 361/2060, WO 392/24, WO 392/24, WO 361/2068, WO 361/2185, WO 345/24,
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