Kinsaiyok Main
Camp
buttons1_left buttons1_right
side_buttons_top
side_buttons_b1_over
FEPOW Family
Britain at War
Far Eastern Heroes
FEPOW Community
FEPOW Day
Roll of Honour
FEPOW Addendum
Members Sites
Ronnies Blog
side_buttons_b1_over
side_buttons_b1_over
side_buttons_b1_over
side_buttons_bottom

171

244

Railway Line - 30b Kinsaiyok Main Camp

 

 

Railway Line - 10b Main Waterfalls

 

 

Railway Line - 10b Also Named:

Kin Siyok

 

 

Railway Line - 10b

Kinsyo

 

 

Railway Line - 10b

Saiyoku

 

 

Railway Line - 10b

 

 

 

Railway Line - 10b Thai

Ban Sai Yok Yai

 

 

Railway Line - 10b Japanese

Kinsaiyoku

 

 

Railway Line - 10b

 

 

 

Railway Line - 10b

 

 

 

Railway Line - Green 30b Japanese

9th Railway Regiment

 

 

Railway Line - 10b

 

 

 

Railway Line - 10b

 

 

 

Railway Line - 40b IV Group

Dec 42 - Feb 44

 

 

Railway Line - 10b

 

 

 

Railway Line - 40b VI Group

Jan 43 - Mar 43

 

 

Railway Line - 10b

 

 

 

Railway Line - 40b II Group

Sep 44 - Mar 45

 

 

Railway Line - 10b

 

 

 

Railway Line - 10b

 

Kinsaiyok

Plan of Kinsaiyok

Supplied by Ron Tempel

To enlarge click on map

Mixed nationalities. Site of shooting of British POW.

 

I had a temperature of 104, so I had to stay at the camp which was called Kin Siyok. There were a mixture of British and Dutch Troops here. When we arrived we were put into a hut with a broken roof and left to our own ways. The first night I went on sick parade to my surprise the MO taking sick parade was Capt. Christison, one of the MOs from my own unit.

Information from, Unknown Soldier. Taken from “My World War ll Travels

 

 

One of the largest camps and near the boundary of Group IV. Barges sold their wares from the river, an egg cost twelve and a half cents here where at Chungkai they were five cents. There was a small stream where the banks were terraced and the prisoners could sit beneath the small waterfalls.

Information from Railway of Death by John Coast

 

 

Our little party had been on the embankment first of all, and then onto bridge-building in the Hindato area. We had come down river and landed at Kinsyo and here it was shocking. The monsoons had started and everywhere was mud; the huts were falling to pieces, full of bugs, and all the prisoners, English and Australians looked so dreadful. They were working from early morning to late evening. There they were, tottering down the muddy track to their work on the railway, their skeleton like forms fading into the jungle like living zombies, their thin arms and their dirty uniforms hanging in tatters. Some bare footed, without hats, literally dying on their feet and walking, shouting and bellowing followed the Japanese guards, their rifles slung over one shoulder and a bamboo stick in the other.

There was a smell of decay in the whole camp of stagnation. The camp hospital was another miserable hut, falling to pieces and inside lay the remnants of what once were fine young men, dying in loathsome squalor. The stench of bed-pans, the groan of the men with malaria, the dirty smell of sweaty clothing, the lice and the smell of bug infested bamboo beds filled the picture. The Japs seemed to have one thought here; if you are not working you're dying. Their one thought was the railway. It had got to be built; nothing was to stand in the way. There were plenty of prisoners to be had and they were expendable and it was going to be so.

Everywhere in the jungle the grave-yards made their appearance; starting in a small way they gradually grew bigger, until when the railway was completed at the end of the year, thousands of bodies lay in the jungle from one end to the other.

Frank Tantum - FEPOW

 

 

15 May 1942

Passing through - The brook and river is 1 ½ miles away and I staggered down to wash in the cool, almost icy cold, mountain stream. This stream is near the river. This is Kinsayo, a big construction Camp where some thousands of POW's work for the Nippon Master, clearing big trees of the Jungle for railway line . . . on rice! There, have been many die here in this area.

Private GBW (Glen) Skewes

 

 

 

Camp Navigation

 

 

 

 

Previous Previous Camp

Section 

Next Camp Next


 

FEPOW Family

Keeping The Candle Burning

In Memory of FEPOW Family Loved Ones

Who Suffered in the Far East

Thanks for all the support

 

[FEPOW Family] [About] [Research] [Ronnies Blog] [FAQ] [Contact Us]

 

Designed by Ronnie Taylor

anbird1

Ronnie.Taylor@fepow.family

 

© Copyright FEPOW Family