Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

QX16937

Lance Corporal

Brown, Alfred Alan

 

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 2/3 Motor Amb Coy

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

444

Force:

B - left Singapore 7th July 1942,on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arrived Sandakan 18th July.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

21

Date of Death:

1945/06/02

Place of Death:

Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track

Buried:

No known grave.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Alfred George and Charlotte Marie Brown, of Mitchell, Queensland

 

Memorial

Panel 21.

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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