解救海南島八所盟軍戰俘(附7)：有關海鷗支隊的其它資料

有關海鷗支隊的其它資料

 

前麵提到的有關澳洲戰俘在海南島的檔案和資料，尚有下列幾種可資參考：

1、海鷗支隊聯誼會宗卷

在澳洲的戰爭紀念館檔案資料中，還有一個宗卷是與海鷗支隊幸存官兵有關的，其宗卷情況如下：

宗卷編號：    MSS1067

宗卷標題：    Gull Force (2/21st Battalion) Association

建檔日期：    1985年

宗卷內容：    海鷗支隊聯誼會1985年3月訪華和訪日報告。包括照片、地圖、及相關報導等。此外還包括下列內容：海鷗支隊的曆史背景、聯誼會成立的詳細情況、當年支隊的具體傷亡概要、以及訪華和訪日的目的。詳細記錄有聯誼會老兵前往海南島東方市八所拜謁當年自1944年4月起失蹤的10位海鷗支隊官兵的地方並尋找其遺物、憑吊當年八所戰俘營遺址及埋葬死難戰友的墓地。並有去當年（1945年）曾庇護過從八所戰俘營逃出的6位海鷗支隊官兵的附近村莊訪問等記錄。

2、其它私檔

Driver W. T. Doolan "Doolan's Song". Malay poem and translation about Doolan's brave stand against the Japanese. 3DRL/4193. [See also photograph AWM 133887]

Pte W. L. Viant. Diary kept while in captivity on Ambon and Hainan islands during 1942–45. PR01105

Athol (Tom) Pledger 2/12th Field Ambulance. Personal papers kept while a prisoner-of-war on Ambon and Hainan islands. PR00871

F. A. Biddiscombe, 2/21st Battalion nominal roll of Australian prisoners of war at Hainan in 1942 and indications of the number who died. Notes on incarceration. Diary covering period Feb 1941 – May 1945. 3DRL/1763

3、公檔

[8th Division in Captivity – Ambon (Gull Force):] Regulations and punishments for prisoner-of-war camp, Tan Toey, 1942. AWM54 554/18/1

[8th Division in Captivity – Ambon (Gull Force):] Medical case histories of Australian prisoners of war compiled by Dutch doctor on Ambon. AWM54 554/18/2

Ambon (1941–1942) – (Gull Force) – Reports:] Report on Ambon and Hainan by Lt Col W. J. R. Scott, DSO, Commanding Gull Force. AWM54 573/6/1A PART 1

Ambon (1941–1942) – (Gull Force) – Reports:] Reports concerning Laha battles – 1942. Australian prisoners of war captured in Ambon – Japanese statements, list of Japanese who may be either eyewitness to, cognisant of, or connected with the Laha massacres, 1945. AWM54 573/6/2A

4、有關論著

Joan Beaumont, Gull Force: survival and leadership in captivity 1941–1945 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988)

Courtney T. Harrison, Ambon, island of mist: 2/21st Battalion AIF (Gull Force) prisoners of war 1941–1945. (North Geelong: T. W. and C. T. Harrison, 1988). Contains nominal rolls – Ambon and Hainan islands.

Allan S. Walker, Middle East and Far East, Australia in the war of 1939–1945, Series 5 (Medical), vol. II, (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1953)

Lionel Wigmore, The Japanese Thrust, Australia in the war of 1939–1945, Series 1 (Army), vol. IV, (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1957).

Van Waterford, Prisoners of the Japanese in World War II: statistical history, personal narratives, and memorials concerning POWs in camps and on hell ships, civilian internees, Asian slave laborers, and others captured in the Pacific Theater, (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994)