Bi Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX67878

Private

Bird, James Emmanuel

Australian

Australian Army Ordnance Corps

A.I.F. 87 L.A.D.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1416

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:

1942/10/10

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 1 Camp

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

Loved Ones

Son of William James Bird and Agnes Mary Bird

Memorial

R. A. 7.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

Japanese recorded death from Dysentery.

“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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