Compiled from the ‘Java Index’, ‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’
and the Commonwealth War Graves
This Page Is Dedicated To
VX39859
Private
Boyd, James William
Australian
Australian Army Ordnance Corps
A.I.F. 27 Bde. Gp. Wksp.
Japanese POW
POW Number:
1597
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:
26
Date of Death:
1945/06/23
Place of Death:
Sandakan Number 2 Camp (British moved from this camp to the Number 1 Camp about the 15 April 1945. Survivors were then moved back to a wired section of Number 2 Camp on 29 May 1945)
Buried:
Sandakan Number 2 Compound (Cemetery was slit trenches, used after May 1945).
Loved Ones
Son of Albert John Douglas and Elizabeth May Boyd, of Pomborneit North, Victoria
Memorial
Panel 27.
LABUAN MEMORIAL
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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