Jack Edwards (Hong Kong) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Jack Edwards, OBE, 24 May 1918 - 13 August 2006), was a former British World War II army sergeant and a POW, most well known for his dedicated efforts of tracking down Japanese war criminals and the relentless determination displayed in defending the rights of Hong Kong war veterans. Edwards was an army sergeant in the Royal Corps of Signals when Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942. He was interned for some time by the Japanese in the notorious Changi jail before transported to the then Japanese colony of Taiwan. Edwards was put into the Kinkaseki POW camp, a mountainous region near Jiufen, where he and 526 other inmates were forced to work the copper mine daily in tropical heat. His team was required to bring out 24 bogeys of copper every single day, if not, they were then beaten. Only 64 survived when the Japanese finally surrendered in 1945. He and others were so emaciated that their eyes were sunken and their bodies mere skeletons of their former selves. He was rescued by US Marines who later made him an honorary Marine.