Ba Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

QX9260

Gunner

Barnard, Leslie Gordon

Australian

Royal Australian Artillery

A.I.F. 2/10 Fd. Regt.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

421

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/03/18

Place of Death:

Ranau 1. May have died during rice carrying from Ranau-Paginatan.

Buried:

Ranau Number 1 Camp (Main Cemetery, used 16th March 1945 to 29th April 1945). Body recovered from the track.

Loved Ones

Son of Frank Barnard and Elizabeth Mary Barnard

Memorial

Panel 2.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

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

“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

In Memory of Fred Taylor and John Weedon
Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

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