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Excerpt from http://www.us-japandialogueonpows.org/Francis.htm :

"First Lieutenant George Francis was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during World War II. After being stationed in China as a member of the Marines Band, he arrived in the Philippines in early December of 1941, just days before the war broke out. In May 1942, Mr. Francis was among 13,000 American and Filipino soldiers who were surrendered to the Japanese on Corregidor. In the fall of 1943, he was sent to Niigata camp 5-B where he would be forced to work for the remainder of the war.

Although interned at one of the worst POW camps in Japan (101 out of some 800 POWs died in Niigata camp 5-B), Mr. Francis did not lose his love for music and literature. Some of his diary entries during his captivity in Niigata survived the war. He also wrote many poems during and after the war. In 1997, his son, Robert Francis, helped him publish those writings.

Mr. George Francis passed away in 1999."