15/08/2025
To mark , we show a page of the diaries from Glaswegian John Francis Clement (b.1915) who enlisted in 1941 as a signaller with the Royal Artillery and became a prisoner of war in the Far East in 1942. He was held in a number of labour camps on the island of Taiwan (historically known as Formosa). During his imprisonment he kept a series of diaries, notebooks and scrapbooks in which he described and illustrated daily life in the camps. We hold these as part of the Glasgow City Archive collections (ref: TD1764).
Picture: Drawing which shows the first few days of Clement’s life in a prisoner of war camp (copyright of the Clement family)
Archive ref: TD1764/2/4
