Bl Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

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1826537

Gunner

Black, Leslie Wylie

British

Royal Artillery

21 Lt. A.A. Regt.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2433

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/02/13

Place of Death:

1 mile from Borto (103 miles from Sandakan)

Buried:

No known grave.

Loved Ones

Son of Robert Thomas Black and Marion Rankine Black; husband of Margaret Beveridge Black, of Glasgow

Memorial

Column 13.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 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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