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Featherston prisoner of war camp
Featherston prisoner of war camp was a camp for captured Japanese soldiers during World War II at Featherston, New Zealand, notorious for a 1943 incident in which 48 Japanese and one New Zealander were killed. The camp had been established during World War I as a military training camp.
==Background==
At the request of the United States, in September 1942 the Army camp at Featherston was re-established as a P.O.W. camp. The first commandant was Major R. H. Perrett. He was succeeded by Lieutenant Colonel D.H. Donaldson in mid December, 1942. Medical services were provided by a 40-bed hospital, which saw its first patient on 24 April 1943. About 900 prisoners from the Guadalcanal Campaign were housed at the camp, many of them conscripts. The senior Japanese officer at the Camp was Lieutenant S Kamikubo of the Imperial Japanese Navy.〔Japs express thanks, Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 156, 31 December 1945, Page 6〕
The prisoners consisted of two groups; the larger group were Koreans and members of forced labour units who had been working at Henderson Field (Guadalcanal), and the smaller group consisted of about 240 officers and other ranks of the Imperial Japanese Army, Navy, and Air Force.〔Mutiney at Featherston, Voyage from Shame: The Cowra Breakout and Afterwards, Harry Gordon, University of Queensland Press, 1994, page 86, ISBN 0702226289, 9780702226281〕 The majority of this second group were crew from the Japanese cruiser Furutaka, which was sunk during the Battle of Cape Esperance.〔Uprisings in the stockades, Anguish of Surrender, Straus, University of Washington Press, page 176, ISBN 0295802553, 9780295802558〕 The 19 surviving crew of the destroyer ''Akatsuki'' were also imprisoned here.〔The Path from Guadalcanal, Michiharu Shinya, Outrigger, 1979, ISBN 0908571275, 9780908571277〕
The camp itself was divided into four compounds, with the Koreans and labourers in one, the sailors in the second, and the officers and others in the third and fourth compounds.
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