AMBON ISLAND
Following information about the additional camps on Ambon Island provided by former POW John Richards e-mail of 3 Mar 2002.

LIANG [airfield construction]
LAHA [existing airfield]
RUMAH TIGA [transit camp]
WAIJAME [ex-native camp - transit for POW]

Recent Photograph of six survivors at Anzac day reunion
(Click for large pic)
[l-r] Tom Pledger, Ron Leech, Bob Allen, Verden Ball, Jack Serant, Jimmy Morrison (Spelling is unverified)



Tom Pledger's War Diary - Pledger's site is the most extensive in covering the use of Gull Force being sent to Ambon. Fortunately for Pledger, he was moved before the later massacre of the POWs to a camp on the west coast of Hainan Island
(Haisho- now Basuo).


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