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Notes by Ron Bridge, compiler
of the roster: Sources consulted were : US National Archives Maryland [NARA] IRC Report March 1944 NARA RG24 Box 2154 NARA RG407 Box 98 Royal Commonwealth Society - British Association of Malaya Records held at Cambridge University UK BAM/ XII 30 UK National Archives Kew London UK WO 392 23-26 WO 345 1-58 Japanese National Archives Tokyo Reel A1118 576, 577, 578. Using all these which have bits of individuals details sometime not showing the camp that they were in, one was able to indentify and detail inmates. The Japanese Archives are a hand written a book of of arrests by the Fukushima Prefecture Police Office. Brief description of the Camp ( there is more in the stuff that you sent me.) Fukushima Camp was situated in a 10 year old 3 storied foreign style building surrounded by a six foot wall. The property was area 10,000 sq yards of which a quarter was buildings. Accomodations were 32 dormitories with a capacity of between 2 and 25 internees. It as formerly the Notre Dame Convent and on the outskirts of Fukushima city. It was opend on July 11 1942 when the Germans handed over the passengers and crew of the SS Nankin which had been sunk by a German raider. I am not sure if the Greeks were the crew of another ship sunk or had been travelling as passengers. I intend including it in my composite listing of British Civilains Internees of the Japanese which I suspect will take a year or so to complete. |