Ch Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

SX9730

Private

Chandler, Roland Keith

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 2/2 Res. M.T. Coy.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1631

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:

1945/03/22

Place of Death:

Ranau 1. May have died during rice carrying from Ranau-Paginatan.

Buried:

Ranau Number 1 Camp (Main Cemetery, used 16th March 1945 to 29th April 1945).

Loved Ones

Son of Albert Lewis Chandler and Amy Sarah Chandler, of Stansbury, South Australia

Memorial

Panel 22.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

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