Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

VX65389

Private

Brown, William Frederick

 

Australian

Australian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

A.I.F. 2/10 Ordnance Wksp.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1607

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:

1945/03/22

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave, believed to be Sandakan

 

Loved Ones

Son of Reginald John and Elsie Eliza Brown, of Portsea, Victoria

 

Memorial

Panel 29.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

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

 

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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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