Compiled from the ‘Java Index’, ‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’
and the Commonwealth War Graves
This Page Is Dedicated To
1523544
Gunner
Burdett, Noel
British
Royal Artillery
48 Bty., 21 Lt. A.A. Regt.
Japanese POW
POW Number:
2429
Force:
British Army - Captured Java arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.
Survived/Died:
Died
Age:
36
Date of Death:
1945/03/10
Place of Death:
Sandakan Number 2 Camp (British moved from this camp to the Number 1 Camp about the 15 April 1945. Survivors were then moved back to a wired section of Number 2 Camp on 29 May 1945)
Buried:
No known grave
Loved Ones
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Burdett; husband of D. L. M. Burdett, of New Costessey, Norfolk
Memorial
Column 14.
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
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
In Memory of Fred Taylor and John Weedon Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.
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