Sandakan
Compiled from the ‘Java Index’, ‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’
and the Commonwealth War Graves
This Page Is Dedicated To
NX68405
Driver
Board, William Edward
Australian
Australian Army Service Corps
A.I.F. 2/3 Motor Amb. Coy.
Japanese POW
POW Number:
1464
Force:
B - left Singapore 7th July 1942,on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arrived Sandakan 18th July.
Survived/Died:
Died
Age:
44
Date of Death:
1942/09/11
Place of Death:
Sandakan Number 1 Camp
Buried:
Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery
Loved Ones
Son of Edward Henry and Emily Finn Board; husband of Florence Louise Board, of Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia
Memorial
Q. A. 15.
LABUAN WAR CEMETERY
Japanese recorded death from Dysentery.
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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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