This Japanese soldier is T. Osugi. I don’t know what the T stands for, nor what regiment he was in. This picture was taken in Singapore by my half brother’s grandmother. I believe he fought in the fall of Singapore. He was a good man.
My mother was in Singapore at the fall on 15th Feb 1942. Being a white woman, she would have normally have been sent to one of the prison camps on the Island, at Changi or perhaps Sime Road, where her sister was. However, my mother was a nurse and was the sister-in-law of the Eurasian doctor that the Japanese had placed in charge of the civilian hospital. My mother was given a pass to allow her to walk from the doctor’s quarters to the hospital, thus… More