Just of the highway and railway near the school.

Monument

A granite inscribed monument with three panels about five feet high.

The memorial remembers the Allied Prisoners of War (POWs) who survived and died while imprisoned at Fukuoka 2B Camp in Nagasaki, Japan.

The camp included POWs captured early in the war and consisted mostly of Dutch prisoners but also Americans, British and Australian. The POWs witnessed the dropping of the Nagasaki atomic Bomb. The memorial includes the names of five Americans who died in captivity along with the names of the other prisoner deceased.

The memorial was placed by the citizens of Nagasaki.

The text on the memorial is inscribed in Dutch, English and Japanese.  The English on the center portion reads:

FUKUOKA No 2 PRISONER OF WAR CAMP

The camp on this site was established in October 1942 during the Second World War and at its peak held 1,500 Allied Prisoners mostly Dutch, British, American and Australian.  They were forced to work at the Kawanam Shipyard in breach of the then current international treaties and by their evacuation on September 13, 1945, 73 had perished as a result of the inhumane treatment they suffered.

In memory of those who lived in such harsh circumstances to which some of them succumbed, and with a proud sense of remorse, we proclaim our everlasting hopes for an everlasting peace in this world.

13 September 2018

The Memorial Building Committee

For the Victims of the Fukuoka No 2 Prisoner of War Camp

The Names of the American Deceased:

KALICH, NOLAN OSCAR FREDERICK

KAPICHE, ROBERT

KIRK, WILLIAM ARBERT

McCREARY, FRANK ELMER

REED HARRY ELDRON