Co Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX68401

Sergeant

Codlin, John Morton

Australian

Australian Army Pay Corps

A.I.F. Command Cash Office

Japanese POW

POW Number:

184

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:

1945/08/06

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). Massacre site.

Loved Ones

Son of John and Ida Beatrice Maude Codlin; husband of Alice Hazel Grace Codlin, of Coogee, New South Wales

Memorial

Panel 30.

LABUAN 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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