Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

2595407

Driver

Bird, Cyriul George

 

British

Royal Corps of Signals

21 Lt. A.A. Regt., R.A., Sig. Sec.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2388

Force:

British Army - Captured Java, arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

33

Date of Death:

1944/12/26

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 2 Camp (British moved from this camp to the Number 1 Camp about the 15 April 1945. Survivors were then moved back to a wired section of Number 2 Camp on 29 May 1945)

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

 

Loved Ones

Son of Alfred and Mary Elizabeth Bird; husband of Doris Bird, of Rushden, Northamptonshire

 

Memorial

U. C. 9.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

 

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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