Ch Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

210573

Lieutenant

Chopping, Geoffrey Newman

British

Royal Army Service Corps

208 Petrol Depot

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2185

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/08/12

Place of Death:

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

Buried:

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

Loved Ones

Son of Percy and Lilian Chopping, of Colchester, Essex

Memorial

Column 97.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

False Date of Death.

“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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Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

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