Bo Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

1554749

Gunner

Boyd, John

British

Royal Artillery

RA 48 LAA Regiment

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2430

Force:

British Army - Captured Java arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/05/04

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave

Loved Ones

Son of John and Lydia Ann Boyd, of Sprotborough, Yorkshire

Memorial

Column 14.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Mentioned in Death Roll (Compiled by the Japanese 9th Division, some entries are believed to be fabricated). Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

“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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