- Contributed by听
- Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
- People in story:听
- Raymond Kennedy
- Location of story:听
- Ramnee Island
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A6479085
- Contributed on:听
- 28 October 2005
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I was with the First Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (The Infantry) about 1944 on Ramnee Island.
The Japanese were more or less on the run. They were short of ammunition and they were either killed or committed suicide. Those who were too badly wounded to commit suicide scrambled on their stomachs into the mangrove swamps to die. The blood from their wounds attracted the crocodiles from out of the swamp and they ate the soldiers up. About 1,000 Japanese soldiers were eaten by crocodiles. The Japanese soldiers who tried to escape from the island by swimming were eaten by the sharks.
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