Be Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

643141

Leading Aircraftman

Beardshaw, Herbert

British

Royal Air Force

84 Squadron

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2415

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/02/20

Place of Death:

Emansi (Village near Telupid)

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

Loved Ones

Son of William and Hannah Beardshaw, of Birmingham; husband of Agnes Rose Beardshaw, of Kingstanding, Birmingham

Memorial

21. B. 11.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

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

“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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