Bo Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

VX22115

Private

Bowe, William Joseph

Australian

Australian Army Medical Corps

A.I.F. 2/9 Fd. Amb.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1594

Force:

E - left Singapore 28th March 1943, arrived Kuching 1st April. Some senior officers and OR's stay, the rest sent to Sandakan.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/07/26

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (near 110 mile peg, 5 mile south of Ranau)

Buried:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (Main Cemetery, used from 10th July 1945).

Loved Ones

Son of Joseph William and Florence Merinda May Bowe, of South Preston, Victoria

Memorial

Panel 26.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). Japanese recorded death from Acute Enteritus.

“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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