Sandakan
Compiled from the ‘Java Index’, ‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’
and the Commonwealth War Graves
This Page Is Dedicated To
618731
Aircraftman 1st Class
Bates, Edgar Cyril Shapley
British
Royal Air Force
211 Squadron
Japanese POW
POW Number:
2421
Force:
Royal Air Force - Captured Java arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.
Survived/Died:
Died
Age:
27
Date of Death:
1945/06/07
Place of Death:
Tuanintin (A trbutary of the Sapi River, 80 mile from Sandakan)
Buried:
No known grave.
Loved Ones
Son of William Edgar and May Bates
Memorial
14. C. 2.
LABUAN WAR CEMETERY
2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Japanese recorded death from Malaria.
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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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