Bu Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

VX39200

Private

Burke, William Joseph

Australian

Australian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

A.I.F. 22 Bde. Ordnance Wksp.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1613

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:

Date of Death:

1945/06/12

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:

Sandakan Number 2 Compound (Cemetery was slit trenches, used after May 1945).

Loved Ones

Son of Joseph and Constance Mary Burke, of Williamsford, Tasmania

Memorial

Panel 29.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

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

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