Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX35254

Private

Boyle, Claude Russell

 

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/19 Bn.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1599

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:

28

Date of Death:

1945/02/07

Place of Death:

2m east Maunad (a tributary of the Labuk, 49.5 mile from Sandakan)

Buried:

No known grave.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Lilian Miriam Blanche Boyle; nephew of Mrs. E. M. McSwain, of Cheltenham, Victoria

 

Memorial

Panel 12.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

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

 

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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

 

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