Be Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX52685

Private

Bexton, Sydney Oram

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/30 Bn.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

411

Force:

B - left Singapore 7th July 1942,on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arrived Sandakan 18th July.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/06/14

Place of Death:

23rn Sandakan

Buried:

Buried beside the track where he died. (Could have died on one of the rice carrying trips).

Loved Ones

Son of Arthur and Alice Jane Bexton, of Willoughby, New South Wales

Memorial

Panel 17.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

“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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