Sandakan
Compiled from the ‘Java Index’, ‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’
and the Commonwealth War Graves
This Page Is Dedicated To
NX43983
Private
Bowe, James Michael
Australian
Australian Army Ordnance Corps
A.I.F. 8 Div. Mobile L. of F.D. Unit.
Japanese POW
POW Number:
1568
Force:
Left Singapore 7th July 1942 with 'B' Force, joined 'E' Force to Sandakan 1st April 1943.
Survived/Died:
Died
Age:
21
Date of Death:
1945/05/12
Place of Death:
Sandakan Number 1 Camp
Buried:
Sandakan Number 2 Compound (Cemetery on east side of track near boiler house, used from March untill May 1945).
Loved Ones
Son of Jeremiah and Catherine Bowe, of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Memorial
Panel 27.
LABUAN MEMORIAL
Served as Anderson. Died after being put into cage. Japanese recorded death from Acute Enteritus.
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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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