Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/12
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan

Taipei, Nov. 12 (CNA) The 20-year efforts to recover the once “little-known” history of

Ann Buckles lays a wreath at the memorial dedicated to Taiwan POWs

prisoners of war (POW) captured by Japan during World War II and interned in POW camps on Taiwan have borne fruits as a book about their stories is to come out next year.

Hundreds of people on Sunday gathered at the site of the former Kinkaseki POW Camp in Jinguashi, New Taipei City as Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society held the 20th Remembrance Day service to pay tributes to former POWs who had suffered or perished in Taiwan.

Greeting the family members of those POWs was the typical damp weather for northeastern Taiwan. Ann Buckles, whose father Frederick West was with Royal Engineers of British Army, told CNA that retracing her father footsteps let her feel what he went through.    [FULL  STORY]