Batu Lintang camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first confederative prisoners held in the tent were about 340 British and Indian soldiers who were interned at that place in mid-March 1942. In sequence, it held both affiliate POWs and Allied civil internees. Local Sarawakians including ethnic Chinese were non interned in the en dwell, although rough were imprisoned in Kuching gaol. Allied civilian prisoners came almost merely from different territories on Borneo: from North Borneo (now Sabah), from Brunei. from the caput Settlements island of Labuan. and from Sarawak. only of which were low British control, and from Dutch Borneo (now Kalimantan ). In contrast, the POWs were brought to Batu Lintang from places such as mainland Malaya and coffee berry as intimately as from Borneo. umpteen spent time at transit or maverick tents, such as the one at Berhala Island, North Borneo. precedent to their transfer to Batu Lintang. The tentground offici all in ally clear on 15 August 1942, at which time a commemoratio n precious stone was erected at the camp. \nThe camp commander, Lt.-Col. Tatsuji Suga (right) with Brigadier doubting Thomas Eastick (left) and Lt.-Col. A. W. Walsh (centre) shortly by and by the liberation of Batu Lintang on 11 family line 1945. Suga killed himself five days later. The camp commander was Lieutenant-Colonel (Lt.-Col.) Tatsuji Suga. Suga was the commandant of all POW and internees camps in Borneo; there were others at Jesselton (later Kota Kinabalu), Sandakan and briefly on Labuan island and also at Tarakan. Banjarmasin and Kandangan ; Suga was often absent-minded from Batu Lintang as a result. His second-in-command was Lieutenant (later Captain) Nagata; round sources say Negata or Nekata). Most of the camp guards were Koreans. with a hardly a(prenominal) Formosans (Taiwanese). There was a range of administrative buildings, quartermasters stores, guard houses, guards billet and a camp hospital. Throughout its operation, all the camps at Batu Lintang, includi ng the internee ones, were conducted beneath prisoner-of-war rules. The entire camp was surrounded by a 8 kilometres (5.0mi) perimeter spinous wire fence.