Ba Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

1251664

Aircraftman 1st Class

Barnes, L S

British

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2434

Force:

Royal Air Force - arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1943/05/04

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 1 Jungle Camp (near Sinarut)

Buried:

Ranau Number 1 Jungle Camp (Covers all burials at this Sinarut camp).

Loved Ones

Son of Charles Henry and Beatrice Barnes, of Hounslow, Middlesex

Memorial

Column 454.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). Known to have been killed.

“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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