History - Featherston

Featherston | Japanese POW Camp Site | Scenes of New Zealand

By featherston April 19, 2023History, Introducing Featherston, Tauherenikau Suspension BridgeNo Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGqBvQJA16c R&D Adventures are in Featherston where we explore the town and the military camp site where soldiers trained for WWI combat and then became a Japanese POW camp. We…

Featherston’s camp – Roadside Stories

By featherston August 15, 2011HistoryNo Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1d0q1AtVVI The army camp established outside Featherston for training First World War recruits took on a very different nature in the Second World War. Over 800 Japanese prisoners of war…