This list of the prisoners of war is provided by Elizabeth Ride. She writes:
It was the official nominal roll compiled by the Japanese "Department for Prisoners of War and Internees", which was surreptitiously copied page by page by Tse, and then re-typed with additional information by BAAG.
You can imagine what it meant to relatives who in some cases had had absolutely no news of their relatives since the fall of Hongkong - even whether they were alive or dead. One sometimes reads "Suddenly in 1944 we got the news ... ..." - that was thanks to Tse´s bravery.
Mr Tse Dickuan copied the list at great personal risk. He describes how he went about it at: http://gwulo.com/comment/30861#comment-30861
Format
POWs are grouped by which part of the armed forces they served in, eg HQ, Middlesex, R.A.S.C., R.A.F., Royal Rifles of Canada, etc. Below I've noted which groups are listed on each page.
Within a group, POWs are listed in tables, two POWs per line. Each POW's entry is further divided into four columns:
- Status. This is explained in a key shown on page 45:
"1" - 1st Draft to Tokyo
"2" - 2nd Draft to Kobe & Etc.
"3" - 3rd Draft to Kobe & Nigkasaki
"4" - 4th Draft to Tokyo & Etc.
"S" - Special Draft to Formosa.
"5" - 5th Draft to Japan.
"6" - 6th Draft to Japan.
"Sen" - Imprisoned
"Ex" - Executed, Bayoneted or Chopped
"O" - Out of Camp, most probably chopped.
"2D" - Drowned on Lisbon Maru during 2nd Draft
"2S" - Left behind at Shanghai during 2nd Draft
"D" - Deceased (some very suspicious)
"Es" - Escaped from Camps.
Those without any marks were remained in HK.
- Number. Each POW is given a unique number. The numbers run from 1 to 7170, then jump to two extra numbers 10981 and 10982.
- Name and additional comments in brackets.
- Rank.
Transcription
I've included the scanned pages as images. It would be great to have the information available as text to make it easier to search. If you're willing to help type up some or all of a page, please let me know so we can agree a format. Then I'll paste your text under the relevant page below.
The list
Page 1 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20625
- HQ
- Middlesex
Page 2 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20626
- Middlesex (continued)
Page 3 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20627
- Middlesex (continued)
Page 4 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20628
- Middlesex (continued)
Page 5 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20629
- Middlesex (continued)
- Royal Scots
Page 6 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20630
- Royal Scots (continued)
Page 7 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20631
- Royal Scots (continued)
Page 8 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20632
- Royal Scots (continued)
Page 9 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20633
- Royal Scots (continued)
- R.E. (Royal Engineers)
Page 10 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20634
- R.E. (Royal Engineers, continued)
Page 11 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20635
- R.E. (Royal Engineers, continued)
- 12.C. RA. (12th Company, Royal Artillery)
Page 12 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20636
- 12.C. RA. (12th Company, Royal Artillery, continued)
Page 13 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20637
- 12.C. RA. (12th Company, Royal Artillery, continued)
- 8.C. RA. (8th Company, Royal Artillery)
Page 14 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20638
- 8.C. RA. (8th Company, Royal Artillery, continued)
Page 15 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20639
- 5th.AA.Regt. (5th Anti-aircraft Regiment)
Page 16 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20640
- 5th.AA.Regt. (5th Anti-aircraft Regiment, continued)
- R.A.S.C. (Royal Army Service Corps)
Page 17 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20654
- R.A.S.C. (Royal Army Service Corps, continued)
- H.K. Signal Company (Hong Kong Signal Company)
Page 18 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20641
- H.K. Signal Company (Hong Kong Signal Company, continued)
- R.A.O.C. (Royal Army Ordnance Corps)
Page 19 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20642
- R.A.O.C. (Royal Army Ordnance Corps, continued)
- R.N.D.D.C. (Royal Naval Dockyard Defence Corps)
Page 20 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20643
- R.N.D.D.C. (Royal Naval Dockyard Defence Corps, continued)
- R.N./DYP (Royal Navy / Dockyard Police)
- R.N. & R.N.V.R. (Royal Navy & Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve)
- Merchant Seamen
Page 21 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20644
- Merchant Seamen (continued)
- R.A.M.C. (Royal Army Medical Corps)
- R.A.F. (Royal Air Force)
Page 22 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20645
- R.A.F. (Royal Air Force, continued)
- Civilians
- C.M.P. (Corps of Military Police)
- 2/14.Punjab.
- H.K.M.C. (???)
- R.A.P.C. (Royal Army Pay Corps)
- 5/7.Rajput
- A.F.C. (???)
- RAVC. (Royal Army Veterinary Corps)
Page 23 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20646
- HKVDC 1. (British) (Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps)
Page 24 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20647
- HKVDC 1. (British, continued)
- HKVDC. (Russian)
Page 25 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20648
- HKVDC. PORTUGUESE
- CHINESE
- HKVDC. -- BRITISH
Page 26 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20649
- HKVDC. -- BRITISH (continued)
Page 27 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20650
- HKVDC. -- BRITISH (continued)
- HKVDC. -- Russian
- HKVDC. -- Portuguese
Page 28 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20651
- HKVDC. -- Portuguese (continued)
- HKVDC. -- CHINESE
Page 29 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20652
- HKVDC. -- CHINESE (continued)
- THE WINNIPEG GRENADIERS
Page 30 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20653
- THE WINNIPEG GRENADIERS (continued)
Page 31 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20659
- THE WINNIPEG GRENADIERS (continued)
Page 32 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20660
- THE WINNIPEG GRENADIERS (continued)
Page 33 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20661
- THE WINNIPEG GRENADIERS (continued)
Page 34 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20662
- THE WINNIPEG GRENADIERS (continued)
- Royal Navy.
Page 35- View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20663
- Royal Navy. (continued)
Page 36 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20664
- Royal Navy. (continued)
- H.K.F.N.V.R. (???)
Page 37 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20655
- H.K.F.N.V.R. (continued)
- CANADIAN BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS
Page 38 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20656
- CANADIAN BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS (continued)
- Royal Marines
- R..R. (???)
- R/.V.R. (???)
- R..M.C.(1) (???)
- DUTH SUBMARINE (sic., should be DUTCH)
- MISELLANEOUS
Page 39 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20657
- MISELLANEOUS (continued)
- Royal Rifles of Canada
Page 40 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20658
- Royal Rifles of Canada (continued)
Page 41 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20620
- Royal Rifles of Canada (continued)
Page 42 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20621
- Royal Rifles of Canada (continued)
Page 43 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20622
- Royal Rifles of Canada (continued)
Page 44 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20623
- Royal Rifles of Canada (continued)
- Miscellaneous
- Military Hospital Staff.
- From: 6936 to 6990 are Nurses Transferred to Stanley Camp
- St. Theresa's Hospital
Page 45 - View at: http://gwulo.com/atom/20624
- St. Theresa's Hospital (continued)
- From: 4014-7051, trnsfrred to Stanley Camp
- MISCELLANEOUS
These pages are part of Elizabeth Ride's collection of information related to the BAAG and wartime Hong Kong.