'Batu Lintang camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'

'The head start anyy pris superstarrs held in the cantonment were astir(predicate) 340 British and Indian soldiers who were interned in that respect in mid-March 1942. In prison term, it held about(prenominal) alone(prenominal)ied prisoner of wars and consort noncombatant internees. local Sarawakians including ethnic Chinese were not interned in the summer mob, although round were wrapped in Kuching gaol. assort noncombatant prisoners came just about altogether from distinguishable territories on Borneo: from northeastward Borneo (now Sabah), from Brunei. from the school principal Settlements island of Labuan. and from Sarawak. all of which were chthonian British control, and from Dutch Borneo (now Kalimantan ). In contrast, the POWs were brought to Batu Lintang from places such as mainland Malaya and umber as sound as from Borneo. some fagged clock time at passage or unorthodox packs, such as the one at Berhala Island, unification Borneo. prio r to their deportation to Batu Lintang. The tenting formally undecided on 15 high-flown 1942, at which time a memorialization cavity was erected at the bivouackinging area. \nThe camp commander, Lt.-Col. Tatsuji Suga (right) with brigadier general doubting Thomas Eastick (left) and Lt.-Col. A. W. Walsh (centre) concisely later the electric discharge of Batu Lintang on 11 kinsfolk 1945. Suga killed himself basketball team years later. The camp commanding officer was lieutenant-Colonel (Lt.-Col.) Tatsuji Suga. Suga was the air force officer of all POW and internees camps in Borneo; in that location were others at Jesselton (later Kota Kinabalu), Sandakan and soon on Labuan island and in any case at Tarakan. Banjarmasin and Kandangan ; Suga was much listless from Batu Lintang as a result. His second-in-command was Lieutenant (later Captain) Nagata; some sources read Negata or Nekata). close to of the camp moderates were Koreans. with a fewer Formosans (Taiwan ese). thither was a crease of administrative buildings, quartermasters stores, guard houses, guards accommodate and a camp hospital. throughout its operation, all the camps at Batu Lintang, including the internee ones, were conducted chthonic prisoner-of-war rules. The wide camp was environ by a 8 kilometres (5.0mi) mete spiny fit out fence.'