Ch Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

1472376

Gunner

Charles, John

British

Royal Artillery

12 Bty., 6 H.A.A. Regt.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2479

Force:

British Army - arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/07/25

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (near 110 mile peg, 5 mile south of Ranau)

Buried:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (Main Cemetery, used from 10th July 1945).

Loved Ones

Son of John and Agnes Charles, of Monkton, Co. Durham

Memorial

Column 15.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

“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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