Category Archives: Memoirs

A directory of every entry from my grandfather’s World War 2 memoirs, taken while he was an internee at a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines. I spent most of the past four months transcribing each entry on my on personal blog at briantiumblog.wordpress.com…I wanted to share the links here for anybody who is interested in history:

1. December 1st, 1941
2. December 8th and 9th, 1941
3. December 10th to 24th, 1941
4. December 25th to 31st, 1941
5. January 1st, 2nd, & 3rd, 1942
6. January 4th to 17th, 1942
7. January 16th to May 15th, 1942
8. May 15th to September 1st, 1942
9. September 1st, 1942 thru May 17th, 1943
10. May 17th to October 30th, 1943, Part 1
11. May 17th to October 30th, 1943, Part 2
12. October 14th to December 30th, 1943
13. November 1st to December 31st, 1943
14. January 1st, 1944 to April 30th, 1944
15. May 1st to August 1st, 1944
16. August 1st to September 21st, 1944
17. September 21st to November 25th, 1944
18. November 1st to November 25th, 1944
19. November 25th to December 15th, 1944
20. December 15th to December 23rd, 1944
21. December 24th and Christmas 1944
22. December 26th, 1944 to January 11th, 1945
23. January 11th to January 29th, 1945
24. January 30th to February 2nd, 1945
25. Newspaper Clippings Attached to Page 24 of Memoirs
26. February 3rd, 1945
27. February 3rd, 1945, continued…
28. February 4th, 1945
29. February 4th, continued, to February 6th, 1945
30. February 6th, continued, to February 8th, 1945
31. February 8th and February 9th, 1945
32. February 10th and February 11th, 1945
33. The Battle of Manila, February 1945, Background
34. Lost World: The Rice Family in the Philippines Before World War 2
35. February 12th to February 19th, 1945
36. February 19th, 1945, continued…
37. February 20th to March 1st, 1945
38. March 2nd to March 9th, 1945
39. March 10th and March 29th, 1945
40. March 13th to June 22nd, 1945
41. June 22nd to August 23rd, 1945
42. Epilogue, Part 1
43. And Last…Looking Back