My father was a Japanese POW – captured during the fall of Singapore in 1942. Before the war he lived in Shanghai, China & married a Chinese lady called Oumee or Lucy as she was often referred to. Tragically she died of meningitis shortly after being reunited with my father at the end of the war.
I found numerous letters my dad had saved from before, during & after the war, to & from his wife and also his relatives in England particularly his sister (my aunt) called Mary. Mary lived in London during the war & some of her letters have references to her experiences during the Blitz.
I found these letters stored in a suitcases at our old family house in Harrow, London years after my father died.
Of particular interest were the many letters he received & sent while a POW in the Jinsen POW camp in Korea.
