Ch Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

WX 8397

Private

Chipperfield, Robert William

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/4 M.G. Bn.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

591

Force:

B - left Singapore 7th July 1942,on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arrived Sandakan 18th July.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/02/11

Place of Death:

5m Segindai (18 mile from Sandakan)

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

Loved Ones

Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Chipperfield

Memorial

R. A. 15.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). Japanese recorded death from Cardiac Beriberi.

“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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