Location: Rangoon, Burma
Opened:
Closed: 29th April 1945
POW Stories
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Name
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Nat.
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Date
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British |
1942-45 |
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British |
1943-45 |
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British |
1942-45 |
Other Stories
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Name
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Nat.
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Date
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British |
1943 |
Downloads
Rangoon Jail POW List (Excel File, 42kb) - An ongoing list of known prisoners, courtesy of Steve Fogden. Contributions to the list are most welcome.
Books
Across the Threshold of Battle, by Harold James
Beyond the Chindwin, by Bernard Fergusson
March or Die, by Phillip Chinnery
Operation Rangoon Jail, by KP McKenzie
Prisoners of Hope, by Michael Calvert
Return to Burma, by Bernard Fergusson
Return via Rangoon, by Philip Stibbe, published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 1994
Safer than the Known Way, by Ian MacHorton
Signals Diary and Memoir, by Allen Wilding
Surviving the Sword, by Brian McArthur
The Rats of Rangoon, by Lionel Hudson
Wingate's Adventure, by WG Burchett
With Wingate in Burma, by David Halley
Resources
13th King's Regimental War Diaries 1942-43 (At National Archives, Kew, London)
Column Diaries for 5th, 7th and 8th Columns of operation 'Longcloth' 1943. (At National Archives, Kew, London)
