Camp No. 12 - Cowra Internment and POW Camp

CAMP NO. 12 - COWRA INTERNMENT AND POW CAMP

visits since 28 December 2001

In the early morning of 5 August 1944, 1,104 Japanese prisoners were involved in a mass breakout from Camp No. 12 at Cowra. 231 Japanese POW's were killed and 334 escaped from the POW camp. Three Japanese prisoners masterminded the breakout.

The following photographs were taken on 15 July 2001 by Daniel Leahy

	Cowra Internment and POW Camp
	Cowra Internment and POW Camp
	Cowra Internment and POW Camp
	Cowra Internment and POW Camp
	Cowra Internment and POW Camp
	Cowra Internment and POW Camp
	Cowra Internment and POW Camp
	Cowra Internment and POW Camp
]	Cowra Internment and POW Camp
	Italian Memorial
	Japanese Gardens

Some research by Robert Piper indicated that there are 19 bodies in the Cowra POW Camp, who were from the first Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942. It is believed that Katsuyoshi Tsuru was one of those 19 buried. Katsuyoshi Tsuru was Yoshiko Gusterton's grandfather.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like to thank Daniel Leahy and Terry Gusterton for their assistance with this home page.

BOOK REFERENCES

Asada, Teruhiko, 1967, 1970 , "The Night of a Thousand Suicides", Angus & Robertson, Sydney, (English Version translated by Ray Cowan)

Gordon, Harry, 1978. "Die like the Carp!".

Gordon, Harry, 1978, 1994, "Voyage from Shame - The Cowra Breakout and Afterwards", University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Queensland