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Burma
Liberated Rangoon Jail
Interrogation and Treatment
Interrogation 6
A member of the Wingate expedition who became separated after being ambushed by the Japanese, successfully evadéd for three days before being captured.
The PoW was taken to a Japanese HQ near the Chindwin, where he met a group of PoWs including an Army Officer who had been severely wounded.
The PoWs were finally moved to Maymyo where they were subjected to very severe interrogation. In the case of the PoW and the Army Officer mentioned. above, this went on for many days. They were both continually beaten up with pick helves while the Japanese interrogator shouted a series of numbers at them, asking them what the numbers meant. The Japanese were apparently trying to find out the composition and order of battle of the Wingate expedition.
On one occasion the wounded Officer was taken away by the Japanese in the early morning and did not return until late in the evening. When he cane back the PoW realised that he had been very geverely tortured, but the Officer did not actually tell
the PoW what the Japanese had done.
Two days later the PoW found out for himself when he was taken away and given the ‘water treatment’ by the Japanese. After this occurrence the Japanese concentrated on the wounded Officer and seemed to ignore the PoW. A few days later the Officer wag again taken away and this time he was not returned until the following morning. On his return, he wag incapable of coherent speech and his nose and fingers had been burned away. This Officer, as a result of this torture and the neglect of hig wounds, died in Rangoon Jail on the 3rd July, 1943. He was buried in the Rangoon Cemetery.
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