Everything tagged: POW camp - Sendai 2B

• In 1939 he enrolled with the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC), rising to the rank of sergeant, in charge of one of their two Bren guns.
• as a prisoner of war on Christmas Day 1941 when Hong Kong fell, interned as a POW until the Japanese surrender in August 1945.
• was the Bishop of Sherwood — a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Southwell — from 1975 until 1988

-My name is Michael Souza and Henry Souza was my father.  

-He joined the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corp in 1938 and when war began, he was a member of the Field Ambulance Section of the Volunteers.  He became a POW when Hong Kong surrendered.

-He spent his time as a POW in the Shumshuipo POW camp and in April 1944, he was shipped to Japan and was incarcerated in Sendai Camp #2.  He laboured at the Iwaki Coal Mine in Yoshima until the end of the war.  

http://www.macaneselibrary.org has a copy of his memoir:

Experiences at Shamshuipo & Sendai Camps

I thought you would find the following very interesting. It is regarding my uncle Private John "Barney" Bernard  Patrick Byrne (HKVDC #4732) - Irish Prisoner of the Japanese in Shamshuipo and Sendai (1941-1945).