Sandakan
Compiled from the ‘Java Index’, ‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’
and the Commonwealth War Graves
This Page Is Dedicated To
NX45327
Private
Burgess, Leonard
Australian
Australian Army Medical Corps
A.I.F. 2/10 Field Amb
Japanese POW
POW Number:
433
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:
1944/09/19
Place of Death:
Sandakan Number 1 Camp
Buried:
Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery
Loved Ones
Son of Thomas and Louisa Burgess
Memorial
N. A. 6.
LABUAN WAR CEMETERY
Japanese recorded death from Malarial Meningitis.
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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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