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Kōrero: Second World War

Japanese prisoner of war

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Japanese prisoner of war

This photograph of a Japanese prisoner of war at the Featherston camp was taken surreptitiously by a guard at the camp, Harry Hainsworth, in 1945. Japanese had been imprisoned there since September 1942. In all there were 67 deaths among the Japanese prisoners, 48 of them in a major incident in February 1943.

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Wairarapa Archive

Reference: 11-55/3.digital

by Harry Noel Hainsworth

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Ian McGibbon, Second World War – American counter-offensive, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/34582/japanese-prisoner-of-war (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ian McGibbon, i tāngia i te 17 April 2012, updated 1 May 2016.