Bu Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX45310

Private

Burns, Spencer Anzac Nevil

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/20 Bn.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1616

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:

1945/01/31

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave, believed to be Sandakan

Loved Ones

Son of Walter Milus Burns and Amelia Emma Burns, of Wallsend, New South Wales

Memorial

Panel 13.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

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