My father was a Japanese POW – captured during the fall of Singapore in 1942.
Before the war he lived in Shanghai, China and 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 and after the war, to and from his wife and also his relatives in England particularly his sister (my aunt) called Mary. Mary lived in London during the war and 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 and sent while a POW in the Jinsen POW camp in Korea.
