Atrocities

Sandakan

 

Compiled from the ‘Java Index’, ‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

QX24479

Private

Albress, Arthur Stanley

 

Australian

Australian Army Ordnance Corps

A.I.F. 2/10 Ordnance Fd. Wksp.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

376

Force:

B - left Singapore 7th July 1942,on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arrived Sandakan 18th July.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

41

Date of Death:

1945/06/19

Place of Death:

37m Ranau

Buried:

Buried Buried beside the track where he died. Known to have been killed.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Moira Albress; husband of Pearl Mavis Albress, of Home Hill, Queensland

 

Memorial

Panel 27.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

 

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“Keeping the Candle Burning”

 

 

 

Britain at War

Acknowledgements:-

‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’ by Lynette Ramsay Silver

‘The Last March’ by Don Wall

‘Kill the Prisoners’ by Don Wall

‘The Knights of Bushido’ by Lord Russell of Liverpool

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Java Index - Roll of Honour

KEW

 

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