Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

VX20558

Private

Baragwanath, Wynne

 

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/29 Bn.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

474

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

25

Date of Death:

1945/03/19

Place of Death:

Paginatan

Buried:

Paginatan Cemetery

 

Loved Ones

Son of Alexander and Ella Ruth Baragwanath, of East Malvern, Victoria

 

Memorial

Panel 16.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). Japanese recorded death from Acute Enteritus.

 

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“Keeping the Candle Burning”

 

 

 

Britain at War

Acknowledgements

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

‘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

 

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