Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

1121082

Aircraftman 1st Class

Baguley, Leonard

 

British

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

 

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2420

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

35

Date of Death:

1945/06/12

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 2 Camp (British moved from this camp to the Number 1 Camp about the 15 April 1945. Survivors were then moved back to a wired section of Number 2 Camp on 29 May 1945)

Buried:

No known grave

 

Loved Ones

Son of John and Mary Ellen Baguley; husband of Ada Maud Baguley, of Sherwood, Nottingham

 

Memorial

Column 454.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

 

Evidence of prisoner found at Sandakan. Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

 

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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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