War Crimes - Exhibit I - My Father's Captivity

War Crimes - Exhibit I

Type: Artifact > Document > Roster > War Crimes Exhibit | Date: 1942-11-12 - 1945-08-25 | Origin: John William Britton
Location: Japan > Honshu > Kawasaki > Kawasaki Prison Camp No. 2B
People: Sidney M. Bentley, Grady Boyd, H. G. Buelom, Francis Joseph Carney, Henry B. Clements, Leonard H. Cowle, Charles E. Daley, Theodore Antonie De Jongh, Rudolph Florentius De Seiff, Kurt Arthur Federolf, Leonard Ferguson, Arthur E. Foote, Johannes Geeraths, Verl Vogel Gomme, Robert A. Jammer, Willem Gerard Jansen, Ralph P. F. Klomp, William H. Knight, Chester Vincent Krawiecki, Oliver W. Krueger, More...
Other Categories: Chapter 17, 1942-11-12, 1942, 1942-11, 1945-08-25, 1945, 1945-08

This document is from the papers of John W. Britton, who participated in the war crimes trials. Exhibit I is a 3-page document listing 47 prisoners who died or disappeared while at Kawasaki Camp 2B.

Document No.: 4.13.0048

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Document No.: 4.13.0048
    1. Provenance
        a. Collection
        b. Terms of Use
        c. Physical Description
        d. Geographic Location
    2. Transcription
    3. Order the Book
    4. Related Artifacts

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Provenance

Collection

John W. Britton mailed the photocopies to Alfred R. Young in either the late 1970s or early 1980s. Letters from John accompanying transmittal of these documents became separated from accompanying documents. One letter is dated November 16, 1978, the other is dated July 2, 1981. Comparison of the two letters and the condition of the copies suggests that this document accompanied the 1978 letter. The photocopies and correspondence are housed in The BenHaven Archives.

Terms of Use

Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License. This document may be copied for educational, non-profit, or personal use; however, an appropriate acknowledgement of the source should appear with each copy. The source should be designated as "Al Young, alyoung.com." To request permission to use this image in association with any for-profit endeavor, please contact us.

Physical Description

Each of the three photocopies appears on a single sheet of paper measuring 8 1/2 in. x 11 in.

Geographic Location of Origin or Subject

Kawasaki Prison Camp No. 2B, Kawasaki, Honshu, Japan

Latitude: 35.50386922997657°
Longitude: 139.7231660229737°

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Transcription

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This transcription was completed by Al R. Young and Tanner M. Young.

According to the document, fifteen men died from various causes between November 12, 1942, and August 25, 1945. Another 14 prisoners are listed as having been killed in the bombing raid of July 25, 1945. Eight men are listed as missing. The last group in the document lists 10 Dutch prisoners who died in the camp from August 1, 1943 to July 2, 1945.

Lists in the document include names of American, British, and Dutch military personnel, as well as members of the British Merchant Marine from Great Britain and Australia.

Each page of the exhibit is initialed JWB, presumably by John W. Britton.

Only the handwritten content of each page in the photocopy of the original has been transcribed. The form containing the handwritten information appears unrelated to the handwritten content. For example, columnar headings on the form include “Maskinolje(kg.)”, “Ammerkninger, arbeider of tildragelser”, etc., and the handwritten content does not align with these headings.

Exhibit [I]
[Ameri]can-Deaths in No. 2B-(Mitsui) Nov. 12, 1942 to Aug. 25, 1945—with cause and probable cause, Date and place –
Stock, H.D.	Private	3923231	Probably sinus	Nov. 26, 1942	Camp H[os]p.
Parker, E. B.	Private	38012245	Probably dys. and maln.	Nov. 28, 42	Tokyo Hosp
Steadman, K. L.	Pvt. 1st Cl.	19012592	Probably dys. and maln.	Nov. 28, 42	Tokyo Hosp
Knight, W. H.	Private	19051403	Probably dys. and maln.	Dec. 3, 42	Tokyo Hosp
Stansell, F. M.	Mr. Sgt.	6458721	Probably dys. and maln.	Dec. 21, 42	Tokyo Hosp
Lieb, M. C.	Pvt. 1st CL.	13006782	Probably dys. and maln.	Jan. 7, 43	Tokyo Hosp
Clements, H.B.	Pvt. 1st Cl. U.S.M.C.	285959	– Maln. B-B.dry Severe Cachexia	3/17/43	Tokyo Hosp
Jammer, R. A.	Corporal–	18043896	– Pulm.T.B., B-B-wet, Severe Cachexia	4/2/43	Camp Hosp.
Thompson, J. M.	Sgt.	6583137	– Dys. and Cachexia	4,9,43	Camp Hosp.
Buelom, H. G.	Private	16007874	, B.B.wet, myocardiac failure, maln		Camp Hosp.
Neblett, R. M.	Pvt. 1st Cl.	6996920	B.B.wet, myocarduac failure	7/6/43
Boyd, G.	Pvt. 1st Cl.	38012274	, maln, dys, severe cachexia	1/19/43
Daley, C. E.	St. Sgt.	6976683	maln, dys, severe cachexia	1/22/43	Camp Hosp.
Kreuger, O. M.	Corporal–	69113675	(Neenah; Wis.)	1/25/43	Camp Hosp.
LaPelle, Milan A.	Corporal–	6541673	Influenza, Phneumonia, myocardiac failure – Terminal Delerium	4/13/44	Camp Hosp.

– The following men were killed by bombing July 25, 1945 –
Wilkes, William Jr.	Pvt.	12032405 - 440th Ordnance U.S. Army
Shelton, Archie H.	Corporal	277774 - 4th Marines
Snater, Bernard J.	machinist	U.S. Navy.
Van Horn, Roy E.	Corporal	U.S. Marine Corps
Carney, Francis J.	Ensign	U.S. Navy
Strauch, Henry P.	Chief Mach. Mate	U.S. Navy 295-00-75
Federolf, Kurt A.	Pvt. 1st Cl.	6948855 U.S.A.C.
Krawiecki, Chester V.	Pvt. 1st Cl.	6977631 U.S.A.C.
Price, Orben G.	Pvt. 1st Cl.	1901192 U.S.A.C.
Taylor, Arthur W. F.	Warrant Eng.	R.N.
Bentley, Sidney M.	Sgt.	Royal Artillery
Rozca, Henry T.	2nd Officer – (Australian)	British Merchant Marine
Montgomery, Leopold A.	4th Eng. (Australian)	British Merchant Marine
Mimutolo, Giovanni	Cannoniere	Scelto, Italian Navy

The following men are missing –
Gomme, Verl V.	Pvt. 1st Cl.	6934168 U.S.A.C.
Paluch, Stanley J.	Pvt. 1st Cl.	19019871 U.S.A.C.
Foote, Arthur E.	Mach. Mate 1st Cl.	U.S.N.
Small, Vernon M.	Chief Mach. Mate	294-87-84
Ferguson, Leonard	3rd Eng.	Bri. Merch. Mar.
Runcie, Alex	3rd Mate	Bri. Merch. Mar.
Mahony, Francis G.	3rd Mate	Bri. Merch. Mar. (Aust.)
Cowle, Leonard H.	3rd wireless of.	Bri. Merch. Mar. (Aust.)

Dutch that died in No. 2B Camp, Kawasaki, Japan August 1st 1943 to July 2nd 1945 ^†
231	Geeraths, Johannes	Soldaat	Dec. 14, 1943
108	Jansen, William Gerard	Sgt. 1st Cl.	Oct. 1, 1943	J-17904
180	Jongh de, Theodore Antonie	Soldaat	Mar. 31, 1944	J-10661
185	Klomp. R. R. F.	Soldaat	Mar. 5, 1944	J-15395
232	Krul, L.	Soldaat	Dec. 27, 1943
192	Leidelmeyer, Jules Robert	Soldaat	Dec. 6, 1943	J-15177
197	Mustamu, Christiaan G.	Soldaat	Feb. 19, 1944	J-13778
207	Seiff de, Rudolph Florentius	Soldaat	Dec. 10, 1943	J-12639
220	Wo[e]sikyan, Richard Christiaan	Soldaat	Jan. 20, 1944	J-15119
227	Schusler, Johan E.	Sgt. 1st Cl.	May 10, 1944

† A handwritten note along the left margin of the sheet explains that the number at the far left of each line is the “No. 2 Camp No”; that is, the prisoner number assigned to each man in Camp 2B. Another handwritten note on the sheet explains that the number on the far right of each line is the “Camp no. in Java” (i.e., the number assigned to each man in the camp in Java from which the man was transferred to Kawasaki Camp 2B) Finally, a handwritten note appears above the column of dates explaining that the date on each line is “Date of Death”.

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My Father’s Captivity

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Haunted by darkness surrounding his childhood in the aftermath of his father's captivity as a Japanese POW during World War II, a young boy embarks upon the journey of a lifetime. My Father's Captivity is the story of what the boy discovered about captivity, endurance, and healing. The book's 320 pages feature a captivating narrative, 140 illustrations, and the text of 60 original documents that tell the story in the words of those who lived it on the home front as well as the battlefront. The volume's notes, bibliography, and index summarize more than 30 years of research and writing. Categories: Al Young, Book, My Fathers Captivity
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