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Fukuoka #22 Honami Tadakuma (Sumitomo) |
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| Fukuoka 22-B (SUMITOMO KOGYO TADAKUMA TANKO) Location: FUKUOKA-ken, KAHO-gun, HONAMI-mura, TADAKUMA Time Line: 15 Jan 1945: Established as Fukuoka #22 22 Feb 1945: first of 34 survivors of Oryoku Maru arrive 25 April 1945: 29 men depart for Mukden; all Americans Sep 1945: Rescue effected Satellite Map Aerial (Jan. 1948; courtesy of Japan Map Archives) Peart Diary: Excellent 62-page narrative of trip from Bilibid on the Oryoku Maru/Brazil Maru to Fuk-22 then transfer to Mukden (click on link in right column) Photograph Links: See photo links on camp chart for Fukuoka #22  Tadakuma mine area  Aerial view  Birdseye view  Gate and guard shack |
Gibbs Report Detailed summary of camp history and conditions. Australian POWs labored in a coal mine run by Sumitomo Coal Mining Co. Rosters Australians - source Neil MacPherson; many known to have come from Osaka #5 Dispatch Camp (Kawasaki) in May 1945 after Kawasaki ship yards destroyed. (Original Australian roster) British: (3 only) (Original British roster) Orme,W.,Sgt.,Staffordshire Saul,C.,Sgt., Whitfield,J.,Pte.,Lancashire Americans: 195 Yanks (Original American roster) Dutch: Original Dutch roster FUK-22_Rosters_1946-02-16.pdf - ORIGINALS Notes: 267 POWs; opened 15th January 1945, 114 Australians, 32 USA, 120 British, 1 Dutch. Another list says 302 internees. Most of the Americans were sent here from Yodogawa. Known Deaths: Harry Ashford, 2/2nd Pioneers, died 21 Jan1945 W.R. Pople, 2/2nd Pioneers, died 20 May 1945 Allan Ross Lloyd Hawke, HMAS Perth, died 19 Jan 1945 Soey Seng Oen, 6201-D, Dutch, died 1 Sep 45 Link to Death List per Japanese records - prepared by POW Research Network of Japan FUK-22 death rosters and certificates (RG 407 Box 187) - American, Australian, Dutch; certificates in Japanese with English translations |
