Br Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

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WX9283

Private

Browning, John Henry

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/4 M.G. Bn.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

489

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/07/16

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 1 Camp

Buried:

No known grave, believed to be Sandakan 4 Camp

Loved Ones

Son of James Henry and Eleanor Florence Browning; husband of Thelma Bernice Browning, of East Northam, Western Australia

Memorial

Panel 18.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

Believed to have been killed. 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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