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Far East prisoners of war is a term used in the United Kingdom to describe former British and Commonwealth prisoners of war held in the Far East during the Second World War. The term is also used as the initialism FEPOW, or as the abbreviation Far East POWs.

Portrait of FEPOW "Dusty" Rhodes. A three-minute sketch by Ashley George Old painted in Thailand in 1944.

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Far East prisoners of war

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International Military Tribunal for the Far East

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Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to try leaders of the...

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Elizabeth Choy

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regarded as a war heroine in Singapore. Along with her husband, Choy Khun Heng, she supplied medicine, money and messages to Far East prisoners of war and civilian...

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earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war in custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate...

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Changi Prison

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Japanese used the prison to house prisoners of war (POW) captured from all over the Asia-Pacific. Many of these prisoners were subjected to brutal treatment...

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Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies

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Japanese prisoners of war in World War II

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Soviet prisoners of war in Finland

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Helen Bamber

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genocide, torture, rape, female genital mutilation, British former Far East prisoners of war, former hostages and other people who suffered torture abroad...

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Military Nursing Service

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hardships and deprivations of the Far East prisoner-of-war camps. During the middle of the war in 1943, the Indian arm of the Nursing Services was separated...

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German prisoners of war in northwest Europe

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List of memorials at the National Memorial Arboretum

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Ex-National Servicemen's Memorial Far East Air Force Memorial Far East Prisoners of War Grove (FEPOW Grove) Far East Prisoners of War Memorial Building (FEPOW)...

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Sumatra Railway

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located next to the Far East Prisoners of War Memorial Building. The memorial's unveiling was attended by former prisoners of war, the Japanese ambassador...

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Fall of Singapore

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USAF units and aircraft of the Korean War

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Formation of B-29s over the daytime skies of North Korea. 3d Bomb Wing B-26B Invaders during the Korean War. Serial 44-34306 identifiable. Far East Air Forces...

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Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union

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Arthur Moon

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of dozens of Far East prisoners of war as the Thailand-Burma Railway was being constructed during World War II. Moon was born on 17 May 1902 at East Maitland...

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