Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX30581

Lance Bombardier

Cross, James Reginald

 

Australian

Royal Australian Artillery

A.I.F. 2/15 Fd. Regt.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

161

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

28

Date of Death:

1945/06/12

Place of Death:

Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track

Buried:

No known grave.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Henry James Cross and Eliza Ann Cross, of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales

 

Memorial

Panel 3.

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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