George Redmond Pringle
- Gender
- Male
Navy Seaman George Redmond Pringle, was among the ‘Allied Prisoners of War and Internees’ detained in the Malaya PoW Camp during WWII. His ship, HMS Jupiter, had been sunk on 27 February 1842 apparently after be-ing struck by a mine during the ‘Battle of the Java Sea’. Specifics on HMS Jupiter’s complement that day are unclear, but it is understood that of 200 or so men, a third were killed, a third were rescued, and a third were taken prisoner. The Japanese treatment of POWs was truly barbaric throughout the war with Pringle one of the fortunate ones to survive. Pictured is a depiction of the sinking of a vessel during the Battle of the Java Sea. More than half of the original 2,070 men taken to the Haroekoe Camp in April 1943 died be-fore the Japanese surrender in 1945.
This Chronicle was created using information originally published in the South East Galway Archaeological and Historical Society Newsletter No. 28
