Sandakan
Compiled from the ‘Java Index’, ‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’
and the Commonwealth War Graves
This Page Is Dedicated To
1530389
Aircraftman 1st Class
Beardsley, John
British
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Japanese POW
POW Number:
2414
Force:
Royal Air Force - arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.
Survived/Died:
Died
Age:
24
Date of Death:
1945/03/29
Place of Death:
Paginatan - Ranau, somewhere olong the track
Buried:
No known grave.
Loved Ones
Son of Mrs. M. A. Harwood, of New Basford, Nottingham
Memorial
Column 454.
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 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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