Sandakan
Compiled from the ‘Java Index’, ‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’
and the Commonwealth War Graves
This Page Is Dedicated To
SX11770
Private
Boyley, William Alfred
Australian
Australian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
A.I.F. 2/4 Army Fd. Wksp.
Japanese POW
POW Number:
450
Force:
B - left Singapore 7th July 1942,on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arrived Sandakan 18th July.
Survived/Died:
Died
Age:
34
Date of Death:
1945/06/17
Place of Death:
Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track
Buried:
No known grave.
Loved Ones
Son of Ernest George and Ellen Boyley, of Adelaide, South Australia
Memorial
Panel 29.
LABUAN MEMORIAL
2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). 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
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