Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

1330503

Aircraftman 1st Class

Blazley, Thomas William

 

British

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

211 Squadron

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2411

Force:

Royal Air Force - arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

22

Date of Death:

1945/06/04

Place of Death:

Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track

Buried:

No known grave.

 

Loved Ones

Son of William and Gertrude Alice Blazley, of Cambridge

 

Memorial

Column 454.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

 

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

 

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“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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