Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

VX39896

Private

Carnie, Robert Mitchell

 

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 4 Res. M.T. Coy.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1627

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:

24

Date of Death:

1945/03/17

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 1 Camp

Buried:

Sandakan Number 1 Compound (Cemetery on east side of track leading to camp, used untill March 1945).

 

Loved Ones

Son of Cyril and Doris Maud Carnie; of South Yarra, Victoria

 

Memorial

Panel 22.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

 

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“Keeping the Candle Burning”

 

 

 

Britain at War

Acknowledgements:-

‘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

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Java Index - Roll of Honour

KEW

 

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