Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

630718

Corporal

Davey, William

 

British

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

211 Squadron

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2510

Force:

Royal Air Force - Captured Java arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

 
 

Date of Death:

1944/09/16

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 2 Camp (British moved from this camp to the Number 1 Camp about the 15 April 1945. Survivors were then moved back to a wired section of Number 2 Camp on 29 May 1945)

Buried:

No known grave

 

Loved Ones

 

 

Memorial

U. A. 8.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

 

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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