Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX45522

Private

Cooper, Thomas Stanley

 

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/20 Bn.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

547

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

31

Date of Death:

1945/02/16

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 1 Camp

Buried:

Sandakan Number 1 Compound (Cemetery on east side of track leading to camp, used untill March 1945).

 

Loved Ones

Son of George and Elizabeth Ann Cooper; husband of Matilda Cooper, of Whitebridge, New South Wales

 

Memorial

Panel 13.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

 

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“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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