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    Batu Lintang camp (also known as Lintang Barracks and Kuching POW camp) at Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo was a Japanese-run internment camp...
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  • Batu Lintang may refer to: Batu Lintang (state constituency), represented in the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Batu Lintang camp, a Japanese internment...
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    Japanese forces from 1942 to 1945. The Japanese government set up a Batu Lintang camp near Kuching to hold prisoners of war and civilian internees. After...
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  • Iran Batu, Kuala Lumpur, an area in Malaysia Batu (town), Ethiopia Batu Lintang camp, a World War II Japanese POW and civilian internee camp at Kuching...
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    Japanese had major POW camps at Kuching, Ranau, and Sandakan, plus smaller ones at Dahan and other locations. Batu Lintang camp held both military and...
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    (today's Sabah) but spent most of her captivity at Batu Lintang camp at Kuching, Sarawak. The camp was liberated in September 1945. Adapted and produced...
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    Australia; his officers were captured by the Japanese and interned at the Batu Lintang camp. Sarawak remained part of the Empire of Japan for three years and...
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    commander of all POW and internment camps in Borneo. On Borneo there were Japanese-run internment camps at Batu Lintang, Kuching, Sarawak, Jesselton (later...
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    Cathedral of St Thomas in Kuching. She also visited the Batu Lintang camp, a Japanese internment camp during World War II which had been converted to a teacher...
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    British nationals still in Brunei were interned by the Japanese at Batu Lintang camp in Sarawak. While the British officials were under Japanese guard...
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    and transporting 13,385 wounded. A recently-liberated soldier from Batu Lintang camp, Kuching, Sarawak wrote of her: My first real sight of the hospital...
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    British and Australian prisoners of war to camps in Borneo such as Batu Lintang camp. From the Sandakan camp site, only six of some 2,500 prisoners survived...
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    Tiahokum (Taipei) Giran (Yilan) Batu Lintang camp (Batu Lintang, Kuching) Jesselton camp (Kota Kinabalu) Sandakan camp (Sandakan) Ash Civilian Assembly...
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    while his officers were captured by the Japanese and interned at the Batu Lintang camp. Sarawak remained part of the Empire of Japan for three years and...
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  • firestorm kill 11,500. 1945 – World War II: Batu Lintang camp, a Japanese-run POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo, is liberated by Australian...
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    Berhala Island, Sabah (category Japanese prisoner of war and internment camps)
    internment camp, before being transferred to Batu Lintang camp in Kuching, Sarawak. After the civilians left, POWs were interned in the camp. A daring...
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    commanders, most officer-ranked prisoners were moved from Sandakan to the Batu Lintang camp at Kuching. Conditions for the remaining prisoners deteriorated sharply...
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  • Robert Smith (colonial administrator) (category Internees at Batu Lintang camp)
    and then at Batu Lintang camp, Sarawak, Borneo, from 18 January 1942 until May 1943, after which time he was transferred to another camp in Manchuria...
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    Borneo, at both Ranau and Sandakan, by the Imperial Japanese Army. At Batu Lintang camp, also in Borneo, death orders were found which proposed the murder...
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  • Michael P. O'Connor (writer) (category Internees at Batu Lintang camp)
    December 1941 until September 1943, and thereafter at the nearby Batu Lintang camp until its liberation on 11 September 1945. After their release the...
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  • Frank Bell (educator) (category Prisoners of war at Batu Lintang camp)
    defence, became POWs. Bell was interned in five different camps before arriving at Batu Lintang camp at Kuching in Sarawak on the island of Borneo in September...
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    Keith's account of internment on Berhala Island in Sandakan Harbour and Batu Lintang camp, Kuching, Three Came Home (1947), was one of the first of the memoirs...
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  • generator used to power a secret radio by British prisoners of war in the Batu Lintang camp during the Second World War Ingenuity, a NASA helicopter nicknamed...
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  • William Young (veteran) (category Internees at Batu Lintang camp)
    in January 1942, and interned in a camp at Berhala Island near Sandakan. He was later moved to Batu Lintang camp near Kuching in Sarawak, where he was...
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    were being held in increasingly worse conditions in the Sandakan camp and Batu Lintang camp. A Japanese 'army' of World War II was equivalent to an Allied...
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  • Agnes Newton Keith (category Internees at Batu Lintang camp)
    January 12, 1943, and arrived eight days later. They were imprisoned in Batu Lintang camp near Kuching, unusual in that it accommodated both prisoners of war...
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    Harry Keith (category Internees at Batu Lintang camp)
    was imprisoned at Berhala Island near Sandakan and then in Batu Lintang internment and POW camp near Kuching in Sarawak, as were Agnes and their infant son...
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    (POWs) in Sandakan camp where they were then forced to march from Sandakan to Ranau. Other POWs were also sent to Batu Lintang camp in neighbouring Sarawak...
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    Australian) who died during their imprisonment by the Japanese at Batu Lintang camp near Kuching were also reburied here. This graveyard was erected by...
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  • Ranald Graham (category Internees at Batu Lintang camp)
    and children were sent from Berhala Island to Batu Lintang camp in Kuching, Sarawak arriving at the camp after a nine-day difficult sea journey on 21 January...
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