{"id":15852,"date":"2025-08-22T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15852\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:25:08","slug":"the-british-soldier-who-wrote-about-kerry-in-a-japanese-pow-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15852\/","title":{"rendered":"The British soldier who wrote about Kerry in a Japanese POW camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Relatives visit Kerry to see places their grandfather wrote about while a prisoner in horrific conditions in Japan during WWII\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"British Lieutenant Colonel Joe Hazel.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/64a4fa1f-0a94-4844-8388-de3672497bb7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">British Lieutenant Colonel Joe Hazel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">British Lieutenant Colonel Joe Hazel imagined the scenic Kerry coastline while being incarcerated in horrific conditions in a Japanese Prisoner of War (POW) camp over 80 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Joe left his native Somerset in September 1941 to join the 6th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment as a Major in the Royal Artillery. He had joined the Territorial Army aged 18 in 1926 and was 34 when he went to war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Relatives visit Kerry to see places their grandfather wrote about while a prisoner in horrific conditions in Japan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,9894,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-15852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-stephen-fernane","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}