Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

548711

Aircraftman 1st Class

Deacon, William John

 
 

British

Royal Air Force

 
 

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2493

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

25

Date of Death:

1945/02/15

Place of Death:

Paginatan

Buried:

Paginatan Cemetery

 

Loved Ones

Son of Hedley James John and Elsie Caroline Deacon, of St. Stephens, Saltash, Cornwall

 

Memorial

Column 454.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

 

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

 

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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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Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

 

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